Adrian Ludwig Richter (School), Meadow Piece. Mid 19th century. Adrian Ludwig Richter1803 Dresden - 1884 ibid. Pencil drawing on paper. Unsigned. Mounted on backing paper with full margins at upper margin, in a passepartout. Paper yellowed due to its age. Missing part at right margin (ca. 0,5 cm), there with a brownish spot on verso. Dimensions: 23,2 x 18 cm, sub. 41 x 28.5 cm, Psp. 44.5 x 31 cm. Adrian Ludwig Richter 1803 Dresden - 1884 ibid. First drawing lessons with his father Carl August, teacher at the Dresden academy of arts. 1816 Admitted to the Dresden Academy of Art. 1820 travels for seven months to France as a landscape draughtsman for Prince Narischkin, Lord Chamberlain of the Russian Empress Elisabeth Alexejewna. 1823-26 stay in Italy, at times with his fellow student Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, moved in the circle of the Nazarenes and was significantly influenced by J. A. Koch. At the end of 1924 Richter completed his much-acclaimed first work "Der Watzmann". 1825 acquaintance with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Wilhelm von Kügelgen. 1828-35 employment as teacher at the drawing school of the porcelain manufactory Meissen. 1836 teacher for landscape and animal painting at the Royal Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden, 1841 appointment as professor for landscape painting at the Dresden Academy of Arts. In 1853 Richter was appointed honorary member of the Munich academy of arts and in 1859 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Leipzig as well as numerous awards. In 1869 Richter began writing his "Memoirs of a German Painter".