Georg Macco

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Georg Macco (born March 23, 1863 in Aachen , † April 20, 1933 in Genoa ) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School and Expressionism .

Live and act

Just like his great-great-uncle, the history and portrait painter Alexander Macco (1767–1849), who in 1802 had portrayed the Queen of Prussia Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz and was a close friend and admirer of Beethoven and Goethe , Georg Macco also decided on an artist career. Between 1880 and 1887 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Eugen Gustav Dücker and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and made drawings for The Gazebo and coat of arms drawings for the works of his brother Hermann Friedrich Macco . He then moved to Munich to study and took numerous trips from here, which provided him with inspiration and motifs for his works of art. This is how he created series of paintings from the Alpine highlands, Norway and Spitsbergen, and Italy. Although at that time it was still rare to deal with oriental motifs, Macco's numerous works in particular, which had been created during his trips to the Orient to Athens , Constantinople , Baalbek , Jerusalem , Cairo and Mecca , soon became among the most sought-after of his art objects.

Georg Macco is exhibited with several works in the municipal art museum in Düsseldorf , in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, in the Rudolfinum in Prague and since 1888 in the Alpine Museum in Munich . Some of his works in Aachen are on the list of the "shadow gallery", i.e. the paintings that were abducted as looted art during the war , and it is now hoped that some of these pictures will be found again in the holdings of the Simferopol Art Museum when they were recently rediscovered .

Macco created his paintings in particular using the gouache technique as well as with oil paint and, more rarely, with water color . The works are particularly impressive because of their expressionistic style and their masterly representation of color and light effects as well as their pronounced sense of details and moods.

Works (selection)

Germany

Pictures from the high Rhoen (early work)
  • Pictures from the high Rhoen , in: Die Gartenlaube by Ernst Keil (Ed.), Leipzig, 1885

Orient

al-Burdanyni Mosque in Cairo
Kalaun Mosque, Cairo
  • Street scene in Cairo , gouache
  • View of a mosque near Cairo , oil
  • Oriental market , oil
  • Believers at prayer in a Cairo mosque , gouache
  • Camel riders in front of the silhouette of Cairo , watercolor
  • The Orange Seller , oil
  • View across the Nile to the Giza pyramids , oil
  • Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem , watercolors
  • Jerusalem - Market, in front of the Damascus Gate , gouache
  • The ruins of Baalbeck , oil
  • Ruelle animée dans une Médina , gouache

Asia

  • View of the Tadj Mahal , gouache
  • View of Benares on the Ganges , water colors
  • Buddha Temple in Golkonda , gouache
Southern landscape with lavender

Alpine region

  • View of the Matterhorn , oil
  • Engadin from Morteratsch , oil
  • On Lake Thun with Schreckhorn, Eiger, Mönch , Öl
  • Morning mist at Königssee in Berchtesgaden , gouache

Norway and Svalbard

  • Fjord in the sunlight , oil
  • Glacier Scene on the Island of Spitsbergen , tempera
  • In the Magdalenenbai on Svalbard , oil
  • Midnight sun. Mayen Island, Greenland Sea , pastel

Italy

  • Surf on the Ligurian coast , oil
  • In the garden of an Italian house , oil
  • Taormina - Piazza del Duomo , water colors
  • Street near Portofino , gouache
  • Torbole on Lake Garda , oil

Constantinople

  • View of Constantinople from the Bosphorus , oil
  • Rümeli Hissar Castle on the Bosphorus , gouache
  • Eastern Orthodox Church Interior , oil

Literature (selection)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Macco, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1933
Place of death Genoa