MACKE, AUGUST1887 Meschede - 1914 Perthes-les-Hurlus


Title: Entwurf zur Tigerjagd.
Date: 1912.
Technique: Pencil on drawing paper.
Measurement: 20,5 x 12cm.
Notation: Artist's estate (Lugt L. 1775b) verso upper centre as well as on the former frame backing with registered number: BZ 50/20. Here additionally inscribed by Gisela Macke: Entwurf zur Tigerjagd 1912 BZ 50/20. Additionally equipped with work details.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Gisela Macke collection, Bonn (adhesive label)
- Galerie Utermann, Dortmund
- Private collection South America

Literature:
- Heiderich, Ursula: August Macke - Zeichnungen - Werkverzeichnis, Stuttgart 1993, cat. rais. no. 2287

- From Macke's most productive creative phase after his first successes in the Blauer Reiter circle, in which he increasingly developed a more independent language of form and motif
- Highly expressive and dynamically composed pencil drawing
- The essence of August Macke's artistic style can be seen in the strong, energetic stroke.