August Macke, one of the most highly regarded German artists of classical modernism, was a wanderer between two worlds. Although his name is inevitably mentioned whenever the topic of Expressionism comes up, emotional excess was not his thing. His art evinces neither the explosive forms, garish colors or primitivism of the kind the Brücke painters loved, nor the socio-critical subjects of Dix, Felixmuller or Grosz, nor the brutal ugliness with which I the Expressionists enjoyed provoking the philistines. Quite the contrary. Macke preferred to depict civilized urban scenes, well-kept streets and parks, cafes and shop windows, people on an evening stroll- and above all, colorful women´s fashions. In terms of palette and lyrical approach to nature, Macke´s works resemble those of Marc, with whom he was befriended from 1910. And although Macke maintained close contacts with the New Artists Association of Munich and contributed to the Blaue Reiter Almanac in 1911, he was skeptical of the mysticism indulged in by Kandinsky. Yet there was another new frontier he explored with great success, the frontier that ran between French and German painting. Like no other Expressionist, Macke translated the language of French art into German. Macke, immersed himself in French Impressionism and Cubism, which were later supplemented by impulses from Fauvism.