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Helmuth Macke

* 1891, Krefeld 1936, Hemmenhofen am Bodensee

Helmuth Macke
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* 1891, Krefeld, 1936, Hemmenhofen am Bodensee

Helmuth Macke
Helmuth Macke, cousin of August Macke, was born in 1891 in Krefeld, Germany. Between 1906 and 1909, he studied under the Dutch artist, Jan Thorn-Prikker (1868 – 1932), at the School of Trades and Applied Arts in Krefeld (today the Hochschule Niederrhein). From 1909 to 1910 he studied in Orbroich. In the years 1910 / 11 he had contact with the Blaue Reiter circle of artists, and from 1912, to the Brücke group. After the end of WW1 he lived in both Krefeld and Bonn. He developed a close contact to the artist Heinrich Campendonk (1889 – 1957). In 1929 Helmuth Macke was awarded the Rome Prize. During his stay in the city he was close to Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884 – 1976), Georg Schrimpf (1889 – 1938) and Heinrich Ehmsen (1886 – 1964). From 1933 Helmuth Macke lived in Hemmenhofen at the lake Bodensee, where he drowned on 8th September 1936. As an artist he moved between Constructivism and abstraction.

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Ahlen, Kunstmuseum

Hannover, Museum

Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

Leipzig, Museum

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Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 23: Leipzig 1923, S. 519 Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 3, Leipzig 1956, Reprint München 1992, S. 286