August Macke? Dead long time ago. Left paintings, some drawings. A few monographs came out. Some books have been written. Do the art tourist thing in Germany. See some August Macke. In the annals 20th Century Art History he’s B-list significant.... He was born at the dawn of Modernism, 1887. When he was 23 he met Franz Marc and together with Vassily Kandinsky (and others who rate on the C-list or below) he formed Der Blaue Reiter – The Blue Rider.... Who knows how this young man would have developed thru the 1920s .... Whereas his contemporaries moved toward abstaction inevitably as the pure expression of the self, the psyche, he never lost the habit of observation.... ...he was drafted into the German Army....The trenches were dug and August was posted to the French province of Champagne. A few weeks later he was dead, killed in action. Mowed down alongside 200,000 anonymous others. He was 27 years old. (https://stillchaos.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/the-death-of-august-macke/)