940 - Eberhard Rechlin, Rising Mallards over Moorland Water with Birches

Eberhard Rechlin, Rising Mallards over Moorland Water with Birches (1928 to 1990), oil on panel, signed lower right, artist's label verso, two mallards sweep away to the left above moorland water, in front is the duck, behind it is the drake with a green head and white neck ring, on the banks bare birches and pale willow scrub, in front of them ochre-coloured sedge grass, in the foreground the reflection of the bankside vegetation in the still water, good condition, paint partially rubbed along the upper edge, image 30x40 cm (HxW), framed, frame slightly bumped, partially torn, frame width 4 cm Eberhard Rechlin was one of the best-known German animal and hunting painters of the post-war period. He worked from his painter's farm in the Wilstermarsch and became known above all for large-format hunting pictures and for the illustrated volume Natur, Tier, Jagd of 1983. Waterfowl taking flight are among his most frequent motifs.