Donkey Rider
August Macke · 1914
Why it's great
A man in red rides a donkey under trees and a sky of bright colors, in a scene Macke painted in 1914 after a trip to Tunisia. He traveled there with his friends Paul Klee and Louis Moilliet and it changed how he used color.
Where to see it
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Hang it on your wall
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August Macke was a German painter born in Meschede in 1887. He lived in Bonn and Munich and was a member of the Blue Rider group, painting happy scenes of parks and shop windows in bright colors. He was killed in World War I in France in 1914 at the age of 27.
