August Macke-Haus

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The garden of the August Macke Haus is seperated from the street via a glass wall in Bonn, Germany, 30 November 2017. The former residence and studio of painter August Macke reopens after a reconstruction on 3 December 2017. Photo: Henning Kaiser/dpa (Photo by Henning Kaiser/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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The expressionist painter August Macke (1887–1914) lived and worked in this house in the three years before his untimely death on the battlefields in WWI. Soak up the master’s aura in his recreated studio and see some originals; the finest works, though, are not far away at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

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