AUGUST MACKE
(1887 - 1914)
Tänzer
1913
Watercolor and mixed technique on paper
35 x 26 cm
PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist until 1957
Private collection Germany since 1957
Private collection Switzerland
EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, August Macke – Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 4 December 1953 – 1 February 1954, exh. cat. no. 87; this exhibition travelled further to: Amsterdam, 1954, exh cat. no. 42.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, 24 April – 30 May 1954, exh. cat. no. 78.
Braunschweig, Städtisches Museum Villa Salve Hospes, 3 – 31 October 1954, exh. cat. no. 136. Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunsthaus, 23 June – 21 July 1957, exh. cat. no. 330, color illustration p. 3. Reutlingen, Kunstmuseum/Spendhaus, 4 May – 1 June 1958, exh. cat. no. 90.
Marseille, 1965, exh. cat. no. 102.
LITERATURE
W. Macke, August Macke. Aquarelle, Munich 1958, no. 3, color illustration.
G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart 1957, no. 330, p. 85 with color illustration.
L.-G.Buchheim, Der Blaue Reiter und die “Neue Künstlervereinigung München”, Feldafing 1959, p. 187 with color illustration.
G. Busch, August Macke. Das Russische Ballett, Stuttgart 1966, pp. 32, 34.
P. Dering, Harlekin und Akrobat. Die Welt der Artisten im Rheinischen Expressionismus, Bonn 1977, p. 72 with color illustration.
U. Heiderich, August Macke. Aquarelle, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, no. 349, illustrated on p. 299.