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Lot Essay
Frühlingslandschaft in Tegernsee shows a view over the Wallberg, a mountain in Bavaria, executed in the spring of 1910, during the most important period of transition in August Macke's artistic career. The painting reflects the development and mastery of the intense colourism and reduction of form that would define Macke's mature work.
Having started his artistic training at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, after encountering French Impressionism during a trip to Paris in 1907, Macke had joined the studio of Lovis Corinth in Berlin; finding himself mismatched to the city and to the teacher, he returned to Bonn, and again to Paris in 1909. It was during this last trip to Paris that he met Karl Hofer and discovered the Fauve movement, which would have a lasting impact on his own work. Deciding against settling in Paris, however, Macke took up an invitation from his friend Schmidtboon to visit him at the Tegernsee, a stay which was to last for a year.
This was an exceptionally productive period for Macke: after years of travel and study, he finally found the time and solitude necessary to consider and process the many impressions and lessons he had gathered from his meetings with both academic and avant-garde art. Of equal importance was his first meeting with Franz Marc in January of 1910, the start of a friendship which would be important for both artists' maturing into their own singular Expressionist visions.
Having started his artistic training at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, after encountering French Impressionism during a trip to Paris in 1907, Macke had joined the studio of Lovis Corinth in Berlin; finding himself mismatched to the city and to the teacher, he returned to Bonn, and again to Paris in 1909. It was during this last trip to Paris that he met Karl Hofer and discovered the Fauve movement, which would have a lasting impact on his own work. Deciding against settling in Paris, however, Macke took up an invitation from his friend Schmidtboon to visit him at the Tegernsee, a stay which was to last for a year.
This was an exceptionally productive period for Macke: after years of travel and study, he finally found the time and solitude necessary to consider and process the many impressions and lessons he had gathered from his meetings with both academic and avant-garde art. Of equal importance was his first meeting with Franz Marc in January of 1910, the start of a friendship which would be important for both artists' maturing into their own singular Expressionist visions.