Research Catalog

Title

August Macke and Franz Marc : an artist friendship / edited by Volker Adolphs and Annegret Hoberg ; texts by Volker Adolphs [and six others].

Publication

• Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adolphs, Volker
• Hoberg, Annegret
• Macke, August, 1887-1914.
• Marc, Franz, 1880-1916.
• Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, host institution
• Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution

Description

359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm

Summary

"[August Macke and Franz Marc] conducted many long and involved discussions about the goals of art, coming to both similar and different conclusions. These dialogues enabled each of them to stake out his own position and provided the impetus driving their exchange. While Macke's art referred directly to the world he saw around him, his images deriving their authenticity from the sensual presence of that world, Marc sought to arrive at a spiritual understanding of the world and strove to develop art forms that would render visible the unity of being in his pictures. Divided into several sections, the exhibition traces the development of both artists from 1910 onward : from their first encounters in Tegernsee, Sindelsdorf, and later Bonn, to their early preoccupation with the theory of color, their work within the Blue Rider, and their participation in important exhibitions, such as those staged by the Cologne Sonderbund and the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon. In its portrayal of the journeys they undertook together, their reciprocal visits and gifts, and the execution of arts and crafts works, the exhibition also attests to the key role played in their deepening friendship by the two artists' wives, Elisabeth Macke and Maria Marc. Their bond culminated in 1912 in the mural Paradise, jointly painted in Macke's Bonne studio. The exhibition also shows in some detail how Macke and Marc incorporated the ideas of Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism in their work as well as the positions they adopted on the notion of non-representative art. Out of these influences and ideas each evolved an art of his own, a trajectory that the exhibition documents right up to the final pictures produced in 1914, when the catastrophe of war brought an abrupt end to their lives and work."--Foreword.

Subjects

• Marc, Franz, 1880-1916 > Exhibitions
• Artists > Correspondence > Exhibitions
• Macke, August, 1887-1914 > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, September 25, 2014 - January 4, 2015 ; and at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, January 28 - May 3, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references.

Contents

Foreword -- Seeing the world and seeing through the world : nature in the work of August Macke and Franz Marc / Volker Adolphs -- August Macke and Franz Marc : ideas for a renewal of painting / Annegret Hoberg -- August Macke, Franz Marc, and the art historical tradition / Ursula Heiderich -- Longing for paradise lost : the mural by Franz Marc and August Macke / Tanja Pirsig-Marshall -- Elisabeth Macke and Maria Marc / Klara Drenker-Nagels -- The masks of the savages : primitivism and cultural critique in the work of August Macke and Franz Marc / Gregor Wedekind -- "You're gone before you know it" : Macke, Marc, and the war / Uwe M. Schneider -- First encounters : Munich and Tergernsee -- The magic of places : Sindelsdorf and Bonn -- Discussions on the theory of color -- The blue rider -- Visits, gifts, crafts -- The Paradise mural -- The engagement with modernism : Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, Abstraction -- Artistic syntheses -- Pre-war pictures -- Franz Marc, August Macke obituary -- Chronology of a friendship / compiled by Annegret Hoberg -- Works in the exhibition.

Call Number

JQF 16-218

ISBN

• 9783775738835
• 3775738835
• 9783775738828
• 3775738827

LCCN

2015417091

OCLC

897220832

Title

August Macke and Franz Marc : an artist friendship / edited by Volker Adolphs and Annegret Hoberg ; texts by Volker Adolphs [and six others].

Publisher

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references.

Added Author

Adolphs, Volker, editor, writer of added text.

Hoberg, Annegret, editor.

Macke, August, 1887-1914. Works. Selections.

Marc, Franz, 1880-1916. Works. Selections.

Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, host institution.

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-218