野菜畑

In 1911 August Macke came back to Bonn from a spell in the mountains, set up a new studio, and that season carried his easel out to the market gardens on the edge of town. He worked beside his friend Hans Thuar, and the two of them painted the same tilled plots at the same time. Macke was after the play of colour and shape across the worked soil rather than an accurate record of cabbages and furrows. That same year he was drawn into the circle around Kandinsky and Franz Marc that would name itself the Blaue Reiter. Three years later he was dead, killed in the first autumn of the First World War, at 27.