Large Bright Shop Window
1912 · Oil on canvas · Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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About this work
- Artist
- August Macke (1887–1914)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 106.8 × 82.8 cm
- Collection
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover
- Movement
- Expressionism
A woman in a long blue coat and broad hat stands with her back to us before a brilliantly lit shop window, its glass breaking the scene into a vortex of reflections, displayed goods, passing horses and carriages and splinters of red, green, white and black. She is the one calm, solid form in a picture full of refracted light. Macke painted it in 1912, probably in November, after seeing an exhibition of Italian Futurist painting in Cologne with Franz Marc, and it resembles Boccioni's The Street Enters the House in its centred figure and shattered space. Fashion and shop windows became one of his favourite subjects in the two years before his death in the war in September 1914, at the age of twenty-seven. It is in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A woman in a blue coat before a shop window shattered into red, green and white reflections, for a hallway, dressing room or living room at 16×24 in natural wood. A white, slate or deep red wall; it pairs with Promenade.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
