"Die Sinne sind uns die Brücke vom Unfaßbaren zum Faßbaren."
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Die Masken. In: Der Sturm, Halbmonatsschrift für Kultur und die Künste, Hrsg. Herwarth Walden, Fünfter Jahrgang 1915, Nummer 23/24, UB Heidelberg
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August Macke
1887 – 1914
deutscher Maler des Expressionismus
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