Naked Girl with Headscarf 1910
augustmacke
stadelmuseum
oil, canvas
17_20th-century
woman
abstract painting
oil
oil painting
canvas
fluid art
acrylic on canvas
expressionism
facial painting
animal drawing portrait
facial portrait
portrait art
fine art portrait
expressionist
"Naked Girl with Headscarf" is a 1910 oil painting by German Expressionist artist August Macke. The painting depicts a nude woman with a headscarf, seated with her arms wrapped around her body. Macke uses bold, flat colors and simplified forms to create a sense of movement and energy. The painting is currently located at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. This artwork is considered a prime example of Macke's transition from Impressionism to Expressionism.
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August Macke had his wife Elisabeth sit as a model for many of his numerous nudes – abstracting and standardising her facial features and body shapes. The painterly simplification goes back to his encounter with Henri Matisse’s works, which were, the year this painting was done, exhibited in the Cassirer art gallery in Berlin. Macke himself emphasised the model’s naturalness and purity in his nudes. Here the headscarf, the bowed head and the chaste posture of the arm are reminiscent of depictions of the Madonna. This type of sacralisation was typical of Macke’s nudes around 1910/11; it represents a counterpoint to the offensively erotic nudes of the 'Brücke' artists.
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