944 - Elisabeth Paetz-Kalich, "Angeschweißter Keiler", wild boar and two hounds in snow, hunting scene

Elisabeth Paetz-Kalich, "Angeschweißter Keiler", wild boar and two hounds in snow, hunting scene (born 1925 Herford), oil on canvas on stretcher, signed lower right, inscribed on the canvas edge, wintry forest landscape, the wounded wild boar with tusks and bleeding mouth defends itself against two brown hunting dogs in the snow-covered forest, traces of blood in the snow, good condition commensurate with age, retouching in places, image 70x60.5 cm (HxW) The title of the work comes from hunters' language, in which "schweißen" denotes the bleeding of shot game. The word Keiler has been in use for about 300 years, older is the term Eber, which goes back to the Latin "aper". In boar hunting, dogs chased the wild boar until it was exhausted and held it at bay, so that the hunter had to kill it at close range; a wounded animal was considered particularly dangerous. Boar hunting has been a subject of art since antiquity, large hunting pictures were popular at the Baroque courts, and Rubens painted the boar hunt of Atalanta and Meleager in several versions.