, Norway Thereafter Macke lived most of his creative life in
Bonn, with the exception of a few periods spent at
Lake Thun in Switzerland and various trips to Paris, Italy, the
Netherlands and
Tunisia. In Paris, where he traveled for the first time in 1907, Macke saw the work of the
Impressionists, and shortly after he went to Berlin and spent a few months in
Lovis Corinth's studio. His style was formed within the mode of French Impressionism and
Post-Impressionism and later went through a
Fauve period. In 1909 he married Elisabeth Gerhardt. In 1910, through his friendship with
Franz Marc, Macke met
Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of
Der Blaue Reiter. Macke's meeting with
Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912 was to be a sort of revelation for him. Delaunay's chromatic
Cubism, which
Apollinaire had called
Orphism, influenced Macke's art from that point onwards. His
Shops Windows can be considered a personal interpretation of Delaunay's
Windows, combined with the simultaneity of images found in Italian
Futurism. The exotic atmosphere of Tunisia, where Macke traveled in April 1914 with
Paul Klee and
Louis Moilliet was fundamental for the creation of the
luminist approach of his final period, during which he produced a series of works now considered masterpieces, like his famous painting
Türkisches Café. August Macke's oeuvre can be considered as
Expressionism (in its original
German flourishing between 1905 and 1925), and also as part of Fauvism. The paintings concentrate primarily on expressing feelings and moods rather than reproducing objective reality, usually distorting colour and form. Macke's career was cut short by his early death in the second month of
the First World War at the front in Champagne, France, on 26 September 1914. He was buried in the German Military Cemetery in
Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus. His final painting,
Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war. ==Selected paintings==