Helmuth Macke

Self-portrait with a palette, around 1910/11

Helmuth Macke (born July 28, 1891 in Krefeld , † September 8, 1936 in Hemmenhofen ) was a German painter . He was a cousin of the painter August Macke and artistically moved between constructivism and abstraction .

Helmuth Macke: Sailing boat on Lake Constance, 1934

Helmuth Macke: White Lilies, 1936

life and work

Macke studied from 1906 to 1909 with the Dutch artist Jan Thorn-Prikker at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Krefeld, now the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences . His classmates included Heinrich Campendonk and Walter Giskes, with whom he shared a studio from 1908. In 1909 he met Franz Marc at the Tegernsee . Marc, who not only introduced him to the members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München , also gave him his summer apartment in Sindelsdorf in 1910 .

In the years 1910 to 1911 he had contact with the circle of the Blue Rider and in 1912 also got to know the members of the bridge through Erich Heckel in Berlin . At the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913, he showed his pictures bathing and love garden . From 1925 until 1933 he stayed in Krefeld and Bonn and was in close contact with Heinrich Campendonk and Wilhelm Wieger. An interruption meant a “stay of several months in Ascona ” in 1930 , where he met Christian Rohlfs and Marianne von Werefkin , with whom he worked closely. In August 1930 he dedicated a landscape in Ticino to the daughter of Alfred Mayer , a patron of the Blue Rider . In the spring of 1931 Helmuth Macke was called "excessive working foreigners" from Switzerland recognized because he had sold some of his watercolors. Then he returned to Krefeld. In Krefeld he created the Blue Room for the industrialist Karl Gröppel (see Westfalia Dinnendahl Gröppel ) , which was only rediscovered in 2012 and shown after a restoration in the Krefeld Villa Goecke .

Helmuth Macke was a member of the German Association of Artists . In the summer of 1929 he took part in the DKB annual exhibition in the Cologne State House , where he showed a girl portrait and a dune landscape . In the same year Macke received the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo . During his stay in Rome he associated with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Georg Schrimpf and Heinrich Ehmsen .

From 1933 he lived in Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance , where he drowned on a sailing excursion on September 8, 1936.

plant

• 1934 Hamlet on Lake Constance with Schienerberg, oil on canvas, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in the Krefeld art museum

Honors

• 1929: Rome Prize

literature

• Macke, Helmuth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 519 .
• Macke, Helmuth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 276 .
• Burkhard Leismann:  Macke, Helmuth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Helmuth Macke: paintings, watercolors, drawings . Exhibition: Bonn. Municipal art museum. Westphalian Museum Office. Burkhard Leismann. Münster, 1984, ISBN 3-923166-07-1 .
• Volker Rattemeyer (ed.): The spiritual in art. From the Blue Rider to Abstract Expressionism. Museum Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-89258-088-1 .
• Petra Gördüren: Macke, Helmuth . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 86, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023252-3 , p. 189.

Web links

Commons : Helmuth Macke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Galerie Schüller, Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Rattemeyer (ed.): The spiritual in art. From the Blue Rider to Abstract Expressionism. Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 408.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Burkhard Leismann: Helmuth Macke - a painter of Rhenish Expressionism. Exhib. Cat .: Helmuth Macke 1891-1936. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1991, p. 24.
3. ↑ Irene Dütsch: Alfred Mayer - a patron in the area of ​​the "Blauer Reiter", behind the scenes of the Munich bohemian. In: Yearbook of the historical association Murnau. 2005, p. 76 f. Fig. 5a and 5b.
4. ↑ Acrobatics on the closet door. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 3, 2012, p. 38.
5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Macke, Helmuth ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 8, 2015). 
6. ^ Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House. M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929, p. 25: Macke, Helmuth, Krefeld. Cat.no. 186, 187.