biography
pronunciation:
[mahkuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1914)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Meschede, WC Germany. He studied at Düsseldorf, and designed stage scenery. Profoundly influenced by Matisse, whose work he saw in Munich in 1910, he founded the Blaue Reiter group together with Franz Marc. He was a sensitive colourist, working in watercolour as well as oil, and painted the kind of subject-matter favoured by the Impressionists - figures in a park, street scenes, children, and animals (eg ‘The Zoo’, 1912). He was killed in action in Champagne, France. |
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