Promenade
1913 · Oil on cardboard · Lenbachhaus, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- August Macke (1887–1914)
- Year
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Original size
- 51 × 57 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Expressionism
Under a canopy of green trees, a young man in a straw hat and dark suit walks beside a woman in a red skirt and blue jacket holding a white parasol, while at the right another figure in white passes by; tree trunks in violet and black frame the scene, and a yellow path runs through it. The figures have no detailed faces, and the light falls in soft patches of colour. Macke painted it on cardboard in 1913, the first picture he made after moving with his family to Hilterfingen on Lake Thun in Switzerland, where he spent eight months working intensively. The influence of Robert Delaunay, whom he had visited in Paris the year before, shows in the luminous, unoutlined colour. Walks through parks and along the water became his central subject in the months before his death in the war. It is in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
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
Strollers with a white parasol under green trees on a yellow path, for a living room, hallway or garden room at 24×36 in natural wood. A sage, cream or soft blue wall; it pairs with People by the Blue Lake.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1913)
- 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 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
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.
