Null Fox hunting" painting
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Fox hunting" painting

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Fox hunting" painting

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Christian Kröner, Roaring Stag An imposing roaring stag stands on a babbling brook at the edge of an autumnal mixed deciduous forest in a hilly landscape, its breath forming a cloud of mist in the cold air, In the background, a leaping deer crosses a meadow, another stag has already approached the deer and is attentively scrutinising the competitor from a distance, hunting painting executed in part with very fine brushstrokes, oil on wood, signed lower right "Ch. Kröner" and inscribed "D[...]" and dated "1901", illegible annotations on the frame verso, horizontal narrow tear in the support, this has already been restored in the left area of the painting, superficial soiling in the depths of the paint layer, framed, rebated dimensions approx. 18 x 26 cm. Artist information: actually Johann Christian Kröner, German hunting and landscape painter and engraver. Hunting and landscape painter and graphic artist (1838 Rinteln/Weser to 1911 Düsseldorf), apprenticed as a parlour painter, went to Munich to the Brannenburg artists' colony, where he became acquainted with Louis Hugo Becker, Wilhelm Busch, Carl Irmer and Julius Rollman, moved to Düsseldorf in 1863, joined the Malkasten artists' association there, travelled to Westphalia, Thuringia and Upper Bavaria on study trips, and trained as an autodidact, became known as a hunting painter, also gave private lessons, his pupils included Magda Helmcke (later his wife), Edmund Osthaus, Franz Gehrts and Anton Henker, received a gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, appointed royal professor in 1893, represented at numerous world exhibitions, member of the Berlin Academy from 1885, source: Thieme-Becker and Internet.