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LOT 48 August MackeOrientalisches Liebespaar

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August Macke Orientalisches Liebespaar Gouache and black chalk on fine brownish paper, laid down on card 48.8 x 62.5 cm Framed under glass. Oval estate stamp verso on the card (Lugt 1775b) as well as dated, titled and inscribed "August Macke Paar in Blumen 1913. Farbige Zeichnungen Nr. 32". - In very fine condition with fresh colours. Slightly browned. Heiderich Aquarelle 209 Provenance Estate August Macke; Therkatz [possibly the actor Rudolf T.], Düsseldorf (1957); Galerie Bargera, Cologne (acquired there, probably in the late 1960s); Private collection, Rhineland, since Exhibitions Frankfurt am Main 1920 (Kunstverein), Gedächtnis-Ausstellung August Macke, cat. no. 51; Wiesbaden 1920 (Neues Museum Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein/Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst), Gedächtnis-Ausstellung August Macke, cat. no. 51; Bielefeld 1957 (Städtisches Kunsthaus), Macke, Aquarell-Ausstellung, cat. no. 201 with illus. p. 30 Literature Gustav Vriesen, August Macke, 2nd exp. ed., Stuttgart 1957, cat. no. 201 with illus. p. 284.; cf. Dominik Bartmann, August Macke. Kunsthandwerk, Glasbilder, Stickereien, Keramiken, Holzarbeiten und Entwürfe, Berlin 1979, pl. 9 and pl. 21; Peter Dering, Winnetou und Kara Ben Nemsi? Exotische Motive im Werk von August Macke, in: exhib. cat. Kleine Fluchten. Exotik im Rheinischen Expressionismus, August Macke Haus, Bonn 1995, pp. 8-43; cf. Dietrich Erdmann, Meine Kinderjahre im August Macke Haus, in: August Macke Haus Bonn, exhib. cat. August Macke Haus, Bonn, 1996, p. 34 (reprint in: exhib. cat. August Macke: Blickfänge in und um sein Bonner Haus, August Macke Haus, Bonn 2001, p. 118); Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Gemälde. Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern 2008, cf. no. 435 with illus. p. 447 ("Entwurf für einen Wandteppich mit orientalischem Liebespaar", oil on canvas, 120 x 210 cm, today collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, German Chancellery Bonn/Berlin) Macke's sheet “Orientalisches Liebespaar” uses a few boldly colourful lines to sketch a motif suggestive of a fairy tale. In the composition's Romantic ardour of feeling, we feel ourselves vaguely reminded of Moritz von Schwind or Francesca da Rimini and pictures emerging from the tales of the “Thousand and One Nights”. The lovers sit, sheltered in the midst of the shadowy vegetation and surrounded by projecting blooms and foliage - further back, a little sketched landscape with a cube-shaped house stretches out before a bright horizon. Macke has combined the secluded love story with abstract-ornamental forms. He has successfully created an intimate and harmonious chromatic fantasy which seems to precisely correspond to the ideals of Der Blaue Reiter. Nature-based mysticism, exoticism and the project of an artistic and earthly paradise resonate as vivid ideas in this composition. The “oriental couple” also proves to be a motif that appears multiple times in Macke's work. A preliminary formulation of the couple can be found in a small reverse glass painting from 1911, which is stylistically reminiscent of a colourful miniature. The distinctive way the seated figures turn towards one another can be explained through a long pearl necklace which binds them to each other and which they hold together in their hands (see Bartmann, op. cit., 1979, “Orientalisches Paar in Blumenlandschaft”, see comp. illus.). This can also still be recognised in the delicate preliminary drawing on our sheet. The motif of the couple here is additionally to be found in identical and prominently cited form in the 1912 oil painting “Entwurf für einen Wandteppich mit orientalischem Liebespaar” (Heiderich 435, 120 x 210 cm). This exceptionally large painting once hung, as described by Dietrich Erdmann in his memoirs, directly on the ground floor, in the entry hall of Macke's home in Bonn. It is now owned by the state of Germany and adorns the Federal Chancellery. Peter Dering introduces his study on exotic motifs in the work of August Macke (Dering, op. cit., 1995, p. 9) with an epigraph by the poet Fernando Pessoa: “Fundamentally, one travels best by feeling.” The present composition also radiates this sense: “The image of the lover[s] gives concrete form to an idea of people who - in a particular exceptional situation - experience existence with the greatest concentration and most heightened intensity. Here, using means that are astonishingly simple in terms of motif, Macke achieves something that represents his specific contribution to Expressionism's heightened sense of life” (Dering, op. cit., 1995, p. 26). Along with what he experienced as a happy personal situation, which has surely also found its artistic expression here, there were also cheerful and playful components in this programmatic exoticism in Macke's work. The artist was friends with the Worringer family, who were planning a new tea salon in Cologne, and in this context the artist had envisioned three rooms, each with different decorations featuring motifs related to the Rococo, the Orient and “modern life”. World War I prevented its realisation, but in 1913 Macke had already gone ahead and given Emmy Worringer the “Indischer Brautzug” he had painted in coloured ink (also “Orientalische Jagd”, see Heiderich Aquarelle 367). August Macke Orientalisches Liebespaar Gouache und schwarze Kreide auf feinem bräunlichen Papier, auf Karton aufgezogen 48,8 x 62,5 cm Unter Glas gerahmt. Rückseitig auf dem Karton mit dem ovalen Nachlass-Stempel (Lugt 1775b) sowie datiert, betitelt und bezeichnet "August Macke Paar in Blumen 1913. Farbige Zeichnungen Nr. 32". - In schönem farbfrischen Zustand. Geringfügig gebräunt. Heiderich Aquarelle 209 Provenienz Nachlass August Macke; Therkatz [möglicherweise der Schauspieler Rudolf T.], Düsseldorf (1957); Galerie Bargera, Köln (dort wohl in den späten 1960er Jahren erworben); seitdem Privatsammlung Rheinland Ausstellungen Bielefeld 1957 (Städtisches Kunsthaus), Macke, Aquarell-Ausstellung, Kat. Nr. 201 mit Abb. S. 30 Literatur Gustav Vriesen, August Macke, 2. erw. Aufl., Stuttgart 1957, Kat. Nr. 201 mit Abb. S. 284.; vgl. Dominik Bartmann, August Macke. Kunsthandwerk, Glasbilder, Stickereien, Keramiken, Holzarbeiten und Entwürfe, Berlin 1979, Farbtafel 9 und Tafel 21; Peter Dering, Winnetou und Kara Ben Nemsi? Exotische Motive im Werk von August Macke, in: Ausst. Kat. Kleine Fluchten. Exotik im Rheinischen Expressionismus, August Macke Haus, Bonn 1995, S. 8-43; vgl. Dietrich Erdmann, Meine Kinderjahre im August Macke Haus, in: August Macke Haus Bonn, Ausst. Kat. August Macke Haus, Bonn, 1996, S. 34 (Wiederabdruck in: Ausst. Kat. August Macke: Blickfänge in und um sein Bonner Haus, August Macke Haus, Bonn 2001, S. 118); Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Gemälde. Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern 2008, vgl. Nr. 435 mit Abb. S. 447 ("Entwurf für einen Wandteppich mit orientalischem Liebespaar", Ölgemälde, 120 x 210 cm, heute Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bundeskanzleramt Bonn/ Berlin) Mackes Komposition "Orientalisches Liebespaar" entwirft in wenigen farbintensiven Linienzügen ein märchenhaft anmutendes Motiv. In der romantischen Gefühlsinnigkeit der Komposition fühlt man sich vage an Moritz von Schwind erinnert oder an Francesca da Rimini und an Bilder, die aus den Erzählungen von "Tausendundeine Nacht" aufsteigen. Die Liebenden sitzen geborgen inmitten von schattiger Vegetation, sie sind von ausgreifenden Blüten und Blattwerk umfangen - und im Weiteren dehnt sich eine skizzierte kleine Landschaft mit einem kubischen Haus vor lichtem Horizont. Macke verbindet die entrückte Liebesgeschichte mit abstrakt-ornamentalen Formen. Ihm gelingt eine intime wie harmonische Farbphantasie, die den Idealen des Blauen Reiter genau zu entsprechen scheint. Naturmystik, Exotik u Full description on lot-tissimo.com

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