Jacques Majorelle, born March 7, 1886 in Nancy and died October 14, 1962 in Paris1, is a French orientalist painter. The garden of his villa in Marrakech will become the Majorelle garden.

Biography

Son of the cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle, Jacques was immersed in the Art Nouveau movement of the Ecole de Nancy from his childhood. He frequently accompanies his father in his workshops. He enrolled in 1901 at the Nancy School of Fine Arts in the Architecture and Decoration section.

From 1903, Jacques Majorelle gradually moved away from Nancy and his father. He prefers to become a painter and leaves for Paris. He enrolled at the Académie Julian where he took classes at the studio of Schommer and Royer.

He travels to Spain and Italy. He exhibited in 1908 in Paris at the Society of French Artists. Suffering from a lung disease, he seeks hot, dry climates; in 1910, he discovered Egypt.

Reformed because of his illness, he did not participate in the First World War. In 1917, he arrived in Morocco and settled in Marrakech. He gave the following year a first exhibition in the hall of the Excelsior hotel, in Casablanca.

This valley, located on the southern slope of the Grand Atlas, is included in the oases of southern Morocco which are considered World Heritage, thanks to the abundance of geological and mineral deposits found there. It is inhabited by descendants of Berber tribes and stands out for its palm groves, springs, crafts and moussems (religious festivals).

On the route from Ait Benhaddou to the northern slopes of the High Atlas, dozens of kasbahs were built, which mainly lived off the services offered by commercial caravans. The Kasbah of Telouet (at 1870m.) has acquired a special importance because it is located at a strategic point, just before facing the last climb on the way to Marrakech.

The Valley of Ounila

It is reached from Ouarzazate, taking the road that leads to Marrakech and climbing through the upper Draa Valley, on the southern and arid slope of Jebel Toubkal.

50 km from Ouarzazate, a deviation from the national road follows the Ounila river and then, after it, we can admire the spectacular Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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