in front of the hat shop august macke

in front of the hat shop august mackeIn the early 1910s, shortly before his untimely death on the battlefield, August Macke painted a myriad of works paying tribute to the beauty of everyday life. Four of these are devoted to a seemingly innocuous subject: the hat shop. The present painting shows a woman and a little girl who are unaware of the artist's presence, so absorbed are they in contemplating a shop window. Would you like to buy another painting by August Macke? Discover all our

This one-letter figure of God thus represents personal fulfilment and complementarity

looking out of the open window of a flat room

The rectangles seem to float freely in space

both on the abyssal depth of the water and on what floats on the surface

The French painter drew his inspiration from a journey of several months in North Africa

as well as straight and curved lines

Master of his own abstract pictorial language

such as Antibes and Capo Di Noli

the subtle shading of the eyes and mouth

Caspar David Friedrich likes to paint nature in all its magnificence

The colour palette consists of shades of blue

nothing in these rooms can compete with the sea