4101 - Hugo Mühlig, Shepherd with his Flock

Hugo Mühlig, Shepherd with his Flock A shepherd leaning on his staff, with a pipe, and a dog sitting behind him, watching over his flock; fine ink pen on paper, early 20th century, signed ‘Hugo Mühlig’ in the lower left-hand corner, slight signs of ageing, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout cut-out approx. 14 x 11 cm. Artist information: actually Hugo Theodor Mühlig, German landscape and genre painter (1854, Dresden - 1929, Düsseldorf), son of Meno Mühlig and nephew of Bernhard Mühlig, a pupil of his father in 1872-73, studied at the Dresden Academy from 1871 to 1873, where he was a master pupil of Viktor Paul Mohn from 1877 to 1880; settled in Düsseldorf from 1881, 1883-91: regular summer stays at the Willingshausen artists’ colony and, from 1908, in Röllshausen in the Schwalm region, 1887-1929: member of the Düsseldorf artists’ association ‘Malkasten’ and, from 1891, of the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists; source: Thieme-Becker, AKL, Saur’s “Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists”, lists of pupils at the Dresden Academy, Bantzer’s “Hesse in German Painting”, Wollmann, Müller-Singer, Bruckmann’s *Encyclopaedia of the Düsseldorf School of Painting*, Friedrich’s *Ludwig Richter and his Circle of Pupils*, Dressler, Boetticher and Wikipedia.