Four Girls, 1912/13

ArtistAugust Macke, Meschede 1887–1914 Champagne

Oil on canvas

(H x W)105 × 81 cm

Status

on display, room 018.2

About the workIn October 1912, August Macke visited the French painter Robert Delaunay in Paris with his fellow artist Franz Marc. Macke realised this work shortly thereafter. Delaunay’s use of pure, bright colours greatly inspired Macke and enabled him to refine his clear and colourful style of painting. The acquisition of the picture by the Friends of the Museum from the first exhibition of the Junges Rheinland (Young Rhineland) group, held at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1919, underscores the great contemporary appreciation for the artist, who had died at the beginning of the First World War.

AccessionAcquisition 1919

Provenance[...]; 1919 angekauft durch den Museumsverein Düsseldorf auf der Ausstellung "Junges Rheinland"

Inventory number0.1919.5155

Expressionism
Junges Rheinland
Der Blaue Reiter
Modernism

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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