Artist Monograph

August Macke, German

German, 1887–1914

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Drawing	2	40%
Other Media	2	40%
Oil Painting	1	20%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	4	80%
Painting & Sculpture	1	20%

Classification Types

Drawing — 3
Painting — 1
Print — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	60%
Medium (30–100 cm)	2	40%

Range: 12.1 cm → 97.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1947	1
1949	1
1951	1
1956	1
1988	1

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 5 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Promenade on the Bridge (Spaziergang auf der Brücke) Drawing Acc. 211.1988	1913	Charcoal on transparentized paper	10 3/8 x 12 3/8" (26.3 x 31.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Tightrope Walker I (Seiltänzer I) Drawing Acc. 142.1951	(1913-14)	Color crayon on paper	6 3/8 x 3 3/4" (16.2 x 9.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Auguste Klipstein
Lady in a Park Painting Acc. 16.1956	July 1914	Oil on canvas	38 1/2 x 23 1/4" (97.8 x 58.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the Henry Pearlman Foundation
Street Scene with Cathedral (Straßenbild mit Kathedrale) Drawing Acc. 107.1947	1914	Pencil on paper	6 7/8 x 4 1/4" (17.5 x 10.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Curt Valentin
Composition (3 Nudes) [Komposition (3 Akte)] (plate, preceding p. 79) from the periodical Das Kunstblatt, vol. 2, no. 4 (Apr 1918) Print Acc. 666.1949	1918 (executed 1912)	Linoleum cut	Comp. 4 3/4 x 3 1/2" (12.1 x 8.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

The Met (CC0 Open Access) — 2 records

Title / Object	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Culture / Geography	Department	Rights
Greeting (Begrüssung) Print	1912	Linoleum cut	block: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24 x 19 cm)		Drawings and Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Tunisian View Drawing	1914	Chalk on paper	4 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (10.5 x 15.6 cm)		Modern and Contemporary Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata