1887 - 1914
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Macke has received more than 249,211 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). August Macke is the 225th most popular painter (up from 230th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from Germany (down from 555th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Painter.
August Macke was a German painter who was most famous for his paintings of landscapes and still lifes.
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Among painters, August Macke ranks 225 out of 1,428. Before him are Maud Lewis, Paul Delvaux, Han van Meegeren, Pieter Claesz, Raoul Dufy, and Il Sodoma. After him are Balthus, Max Liebermann, Natalia Goncharova, Pietro Lorenzetti, William Hogarth, and Jan van Goyen.
1903 - 1970
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 219
1897 - 1994
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 220
1889 - 1947
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 221
1596 - 1660
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 222
1877 - 1953
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 223
1477 - 1549
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 224
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 225
1908 - 2001
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 226
1847 - 1935
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 227
1881 - 1962
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 228
1280 - 1348
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 229
1697 - 1764
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 230
1596 - 1656
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 231
Among people born in 1887, August Macke ranks 30. Before him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Felix Yusupov, Georg Trakl, Ruth Benedict, Kurt Schwitters, and Leopold Ružička. After him are Wolfgang Köhler, Erich Mendelsohn, Lothar Rendulic, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nadia Boulanger, and John Reed. Among people deceased in 1914, August Macke ranks 14. Before him are Paul Heyse, Charles Albert Gobat, Carol I of Romania, August Weismann, Georg Trakl, and Jean Jaurès. After him are Ambrose Bierce, Georges Picquart, Ismail Gaspirali, Eduard Suess, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, and Alphonse Bertillon.
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 24
1887 - 1967
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 25
1887 - 1914
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 26
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 27
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 28
1887 - 1976
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 29
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 30
1887 - 1967
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 31
1887 - 1953
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 32
1887 - 1971
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 33
1887 - 1986
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 34
1887 - 1979
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 35
1887 - 1920
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 36
1830 - 1914
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 8
1843 - 1914
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 9
1839 - 1914
HPI: 74.72
Rank: 10
1834 - 1914
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 11
1887 - 1914
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 12
1859 - 1914
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 13
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 14
1842 - 1914
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 15
1854 - 1914
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 16
1851 - 1914
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 17
1831 - 1914
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 18
1851 - 1914
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 19
1853 - 1914
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, August Macke ranks 590 out of 5,289. Before him are Karl Wolff (1900), August Bebel (1840), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551), James Last (1929), Till Lindemann (1963), and Karl Gebhardt (1897). After him are Max Liebermann (1847), Klaus Meine (1948), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Paul Breitner (1951), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), and Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750).
1900 - 1984
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 584
1840 - 1913
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 585
1551 - 1608
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 586
1929 - 2015
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 587
1963 - Present
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 588
1897 - 1948
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 589
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 590
1847 - 1935
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 591
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 592
1629 - 1698
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 593
1951 - Present
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 594
1174 - 1243
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 595
1750 - 1806
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 596
Among painters born in Germany, August Macke ranks 17. Before him are Emil Nolde (1867), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Otto Dix (1891), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), George Grosz (1893), and Hans Baldung (1484). After him are Max Liebermann (1847), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Max Beckmann (1884), Lucian Freud (1922), Hans von Aachen (1552), and Franz Stuck (1863).
1867 - 1956
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 11
1480 - 1538
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 12
1891 - 1969
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 13
1515 - 1586
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 14
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 15
1484 - 1545
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 16
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 17
1847 - 1935
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 18
1805 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 19
1884 - 1950
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 20
1922 - 2011
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 21
1552 - 1615
HPI: 71.75
Rank: 22
1863 - 1928
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 23