August Macke and Portrait of the Artist's Wife

'Portrait of the Artist's Wife' (1909) by August Macke; Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster

I didn't really know August Macke's work. I knew him to be a member of the German Expressionist Group Der Blaue Reiter but I was unaware of the beauty of some of his paintings until now. I had to choose one image but I could have chosen numerous ones. I really like his paintings of women. In that respect he reminds me a bit of Kees van Dongen. Macke was born on 3 January 1887 and died an early death at the front in the second month of World War I, in September 1914.