August Macke spent the summer months of 1914, like previous ones, with his family in Hilterfingen on Lake Thun in Switzerland. The shops in the streets of the Old Town (Thun) and the surrounding landscape constantly reappear as motifs in the artist’s works. This includes the hat store which, like other clothing stores, fascinated the artist pictorially and inspired him to a series of shop window paintings, to which he attached considerable import. Robert Delaunay’s window paintings, with their complex play of painted reflections of light and mirroring, doubtless served as an inspiration for August Macke. He chose a calmer, seemingly static composition, however. Only the colorful hats on display counteract the woman with the parasol’s statue-like pose. The hat shop façade, like the showcase walls, are strictly structured geometric planes.
1914年夏天，奥古斯特-马克(August Macke)一如往常，和家人在瑞士图恩湖畔的希尔特芬根度过了几个月。老城图恩（Thun）街道上的商店和周围的景观不断出现在艺术家的作品中。其中包括帽子店，像其他服装店一样，丰富的色彩和样式吸引了艺术家，并启发他创作了一系列橱窗绘画。他十分重视这个系列。罗伯特-德劳内(Robert Delaunay)的橱窗画包含复杂的光影和镜面绘画，无疑是马克的灵感来源。然而，他选择了一种较为平静、看似静止的构图。画面中展出的五颜六色的帽子与打着阳伞的女士雕像般的姿势相得益彰。帽子店的正面，与橱窗墙壁的描绘方式相同，是严格的几何平面结构。
August Robert Ludwig Macke died on 26 September 1914, so this painting was one of his last ones. He was a German Expressionist painter and one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art; he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements that were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde, which most interested him.
奥古斯特-路德维希-马克于1914年9月26日去世，所以这幅画是他最后的作品之一。马克是德国表现主义画家，也是德国表现主义画派“蓝色骑士”(Der Blue Rider)的主要成员之一。他生活在德国艺术极具创新的时期；经历了德国表现主义运动的发展，以及欧洲其他地区相继形成的一系列先锋运动的到来。作为一个真正的时代艺术家，马克深知如何将他最感兴趣的先锋元素融入绘画中。
We present today's painting thanks to the Museum Folkwang. : )
感谢弗柯望博物馆与我们分享今天的画作。:)
