Street Scene In Cairo Orientalist Macco Georg

In the foreground, a porch announcing a shopping street, a very lively scene in Cairo with many characters, lighting effects, a great sense of detail and beautiful colors. Oil on canvas signed Georg Macco and dated 1912 Very beautiful gilded frame dimensions of the frame L62cm x H75cm Georg Macco 1863-1933 is a German painter born in Aix-la-Chapelle, and died in Genoa. Georg Macco studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts with Eugen Dücker and Peter Janssen, he began as an illustrator, notably for the books of his brother Hermann Friedrich Macco. He set up his studio in Munich, traveled extensively, painted landscapes of the high Alpine plateaus, Norway, Spitsbergen and Italy, and then made Orientalism his specialty, with works inspired by his travels to Constantinople, Cairo and Mecca-Jerusalem. Works by Georg Macco are in the collections of the Düsseldorf Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum Kunstpalast, the Aachen Art Museum, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, and the Alpine Museum in Munich.