901 - Ernst Ludwig von Aster, Harz Stag, Red Deer in an Autumn Landscape

Ernst Ludwig von Aster, Harz Stag, Red Deer in an Autumn Landscape (1902 to 1986), oil on hardboard, signed lower right, inscribed verso, a red deer stands on a wind-swept grassy slope, its head turned slightly to the side, the mouth closed, the body modelled in warm red-brown and grey tones, at the left a dead spruce, at the right a weathered root stock, behind it a hazy valley and a blue-grey ridge, the sky in pale turquoise and apricot, good condition commensurate with age, small paint losses in places, image 50x40 cm (HxW), framed, frame slightly bumped, frame width 4 cm The red deer in an open landscape was the most popular motif of German hunting painting in the 20th century. Ernst-Ludwig von Aster was resident in Goslar on the northern edge of the Harz and drew his motifs directly from this landscape; the title on the reverse refers to it expressly. In 1961 he received the cultural prize of the city of Goslar.