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the paintings that were created on this trip. Macke himself risked a donkey ride under the guidance of a local. In his photo album there is a photograph that shows a donkey rider in motion, which probably served as a template for the watercolor. Paul Klee and August Macke painted watercolors in the house of the Swiss physician Dr. Jaeggi, who removed the walls of a room to create a studio. While Klee was painting the figures of two Arabs, a man and a woman, Macke made sketches of orange baskets and of a black donkey and of people with red fetters in the background.
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