Lot 206: Infantry

Macke, Helmuth
Krefeld 1891 - Hemmenhofen 1936
Infantry
Ca. 1914/15, oil/canvas/cardboard, 37 x 41 cm, min. pigment loss. - The painting will be included to the catalogue raisoné by Burkhard Leismann and Kinga Luchs. - While serving the army Macke painted few military subjects. Other than most of the works of that period the painting at hand is painted on canvas instead on paper. - German landscape a. figure painter, cousin of August M. He studied 1906-08 in Krefeld under J. Thorn-Prikker, met the 'Blauer Reiter' artists in Munich a. the 'Brücke' artists in Berlin. In 1929 he was awarded the Rome prize where he met Schmidt-Rottluff. - Mus.: Krefeld, Leipzig, Hannover. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer.