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Atmospheric etching by Marius Bauer, signed in pencil and in the plate. Also in pencil: No 13.
Marie Alexandre Jacques (Marius) Bauer (The Hague, January 25, 1867 - Amsterdam, July 18, 1932) was a Dutch painter. He became best known for making etchings and lithographs of Oriental scenes and he is therefore called the Netherlands' most famous orientalist.
Just like his older brother, architect Willem Cornelis Bauer, he was born into an art-loving environment, and the children learned to draw at an early age. Bauer attended the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1878 to 1885, where he studied with, among others, his contemporary Breitner. He was a member of Pulchri Studio and Arti et Amicitiae. In 1888 he made a study trip to Constantinople. From that moment on the 'East' was his main subject. After this he made many trips abroad, including to the Dutch East Indies. He was enabled to do this by the Amsterdam art dealer Elbert Jan van Wisselingh, who paid for his travels, including an allowance to live on.
Bauer made numerous etchings, but also watercolors and oil paintings of Eastern cities, camels, elephants, Arabs and mosques. His style can be described as impressionistic. He was strongly influenced by the Hague School in both technique and use of light. Marius Bauer was one of the few Dutch artists from the 19th century who focused exclusively on orientalism. He based his work on his sketches that he made on the spot and on photographs that he bought along the way. Once home, he developed the sketches into full-fledged works of art. These works were not truthful, but based on the personal impressions Bauer had gained in the East. They often breathe the dreamy atmosphere of the stories from One Thousand and One Nights.
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