Indianer zu Pferd
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August Macke made Indianer zu Pferd in 1914, the final year of his life. It's a charcoal drawing on tan paper — two Native American figures in feathered headdresses on horseback, rendered in fast, heavy strokes, the forms barely separated from the dark smudged atmosphere around them. European fascination with the American West was widespread in the early twentieth century, fueled by Buffalo Bill's touring Wild West shows and ethnographic collections in museums across Germany. Macke was a leading member of Der Blaue Reiter alongside Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and had just returned from a trip to Tunisia with Paul Klee that April. By September he was dead, killed at the front in Champagne at twenty-seven.