Marius Bauer. 1867-1932. Oogstrelend Oosters

With the recent interest for Orientalism in art, the work of the painter Marius Bauer (1867-1932) is being rediscovered. Bauer travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco.
In 1888 he was given the opportunity to travel for the first time to Istanbul at the expense of the art dealer E.J. van Wisselingh. He returned with more than a hundred drawings and several full sketchbooks. It was the same story with his many subsequent travels. He visited, among other places, Cairo, Luxor, Jerusalem, Agra and Delhi: bustling street life, colourful local peoples and picturesque settings in what were then largely unknown destinations formed an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his spatial landscapes and exotic urban scenes. Bauer produced an extensive body of work that included paintings, water colours and etchings.
In this monograph by Bauer connoisseur André Kraayenga many new and unknown works are published that were discovered by the Bauer Documentation Foundation during a major study of the artist's body of work.