The story behind the picture
Unser Garten mit blühenden Rabatten — August Macke
Macke paints his own garden as a piece of music: flower beds struck like chords, a pink path carrying the eye forward, green arriving in a dozen keys. One of the Der Blaue Reiter painters, he was killed in 1914 at twenty-seven. The brightness was never naive.
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