Orientalism | Georg Macco (1863 - 1933)

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View of Constantinople from the Bosphorus, oil on canvas
Kastell Rumeli Hissar am Bosporus von Georg Macco | Rumeli Hisar on Bosphorus, Gouache
Eastern Orthodox Church Interior, oil on canvas

Mosquée à Istanbul signé et daté 'G. Macco 21.3.31' (lower left) 
Gouache sur carton d'artiste 38,5 x 51,5 cm. (15¼ x 20¼ in.)
La mosquée d'Eyüp, Istanbul signé et daté à l'encre 'Georg Macco 19.III.30' (lower left) 
Gouache sur carton d'artiste 43,1 x 63 cm. (17 x 24 5/8 in.) 
Boats in the port of Constantinople Oil On Canvas 38.7 x 56 cm (15.24" x 22.05")

Konstantinopel. Blick auf das Kastell Yedikulehisarý umgeben von Zypressen und blühenden Mohnfeldern. In der Ferne die Ufer des Bosporus

The Orange Seller, Outside Bab Zuwayla, Cairo
Kühe im Wasser bei einer Steinbrücke.
MACCO Georg,The orange seller,Sotheby's,London
A view of the Acropolis signed and dated 'Georg Macco/1927' (lower right), 
also signed, inscribed and dated 'G.Macco Athen 1927' on the stretcher 
oil on canvas 42.5 x 60 cm. (16 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)




Georg Macco (b. March 23, Aachen 1863 - d. 20 April 1933 Genoa) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of Expressionism.

His great-great uncle was the history and portrait painter Alexander Macco (1767-1849. He studied 1880-1887 at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Eugen Gustav Dücker and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen. Then he went to study in Munich. Maccos many paintings that were created in the course of his Oriental travels to Athens, Constantinople, Baalbek, Jerusalem, Cairo and Mecca, and soon became the most popular of his works of art.


His paintings were created especially in gouache and oil paint. The works are notable by their expressionist idiom and its masterful display of color and light effects as well as strong attention to detail and mood.