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August Macke / Woman in Green Jacket

Woman in Green Jacket

1913 · Oil on canvas

A fashionable woman in a bright green jacket is reduced to flat, simplified colour planes, showing Macke's debt to Cubism and Delaunay's Orphism.

LocationCologne, Germany
Genreportrait
Dimensions44 × 43.5 cm

Why it matters

A woman in a green jacket stands in a park among elegant couples with bowler hats and parasols, their faces reduced to anonymous shapes. The colour shows Robert Delaunay's influence on Macke.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1913.
  • It was one of the first paintings Macke made in Hilterfingen, Switzerland.
  • It is in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

Based on the Wikipedia article Lady in Green Jacket (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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