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Since its founding nearly twenty years ago the Verein August Macke House has staged a regular succession of exhibitions and built extensive archival and library holdings on Rhenish Expressionism. At the same time, it has also succeeded in assembling an impressive collection of works by August Macke and related artists and literary figures, and has appointed the artist's studio and adjacent rooms with representative furnishings and art works which it holds on permanent loan.
The collection now comprises some 3,700 works by a total of 50 artists. It has grown thanks to the many donations, gifts, and bequests provided in appreciation and recognition of the efforts and goals of the Verein. This generosity has enabled the Verein, which has no purchasing budget of its own, to acquire works when unique opportunities have arisen.
The collection focuses on August Macke and the 15 artists who participated in the 1913 "Exhibition of Rhenish Expressionists" staged in Bonn at the initiative of Macke. They include, among others: Heinrich Campendonk, Franz M. Jansen, Helmuth Macke, Marie von Malachowski-Nauen, Carlo Mense, Heinrich Nauen, Paul Adolf Seehaus, and Hans Thuar. Also represented are other important protagonists of the Rhenish art scene in the first decade of the 20th century, the first and the second generation of Expressionists, and Expressionists from other groups who had close contacts with the Rhineland and, above all, with August Macke (e.g. Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky).
Marie von Malachowski-Nauen (1880 – 1943),
Portrait of Heinrich Nauen, 1909/10, charcoal, 15.5 x 21 cm, August Macke Haus Bonn |
The collection chiefly consists of prints and other works on paper, ranging from water colors and gouaches to drawings, etchings, linoleum and wood cuts, lithographs, silk screens, and scissor-cut silhouettes.
Josef Strater (1899 – 1956),
Moon Landscape, 1923, oil/canvas, 150 x 128 cm, August Macke Haus Bonn |
Some 120 works from the collection and inventory of the August Macke House, also including a number of its most recent acquisitions, are being shown in the first phase of a comprehensive modernization, restoration, and interior reorganization of the House to begin this summer and continue through several phases in the next few years.
Marta Worringer (1881 – 1965),
City Park, around 1920, silk embroidery, 82 x 60 cm, August Macke Haus Bonn |
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| and press text for the current exhibition – reproduction only with express permission of the August Macke Haus. |
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