August Macke was one of the key figures in the Expressionist movement Der Blaue Reiter, alongside Kandinsky and Franz Marc. He spent most of his artistic life in Bonn, but was shaped by travels to Paris, Italy, and Tunisia. His style moved from Impressionism and Fauvism toward Robert Delaunay's chromatic Cubism. Despite these abstract influences, Macke remained faithful to everyday life as his subject matter — shop windows, promenades, people in parks. His final works were created during a trip to Tunisia in 1914 together with Paul Klee. One painting is called Farewell and depicts figures taking leave of one another. Their faces are blank and dissolving, as if they are already in the process of disappearing. A few months later he was dead — called up for military service during the First World War, he fell after just six weeks at the front in France, aged 27.