This animalistic painting was executed by listed German animal painter and lthographer August Schleich (1814 - Munich - 1865). He was the son of other painter Joh.Carl Schleich, studied at the Munich academy and worked here. In the 1840s invention of "smoke painting". His works situated in the famous Maillinger Collection Munich and in the Dresden Kupferstichkabinet.
here is quotation from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (general German Biographe): "With special fondness, however, he threw himself on the depiction of living and dead animals, whose peculiar character in form and expression he was able to grasp and reproduce admirably, and for this purpose he often grazed every week. and for months through mountain and valley, through the corridor, moor and forest ... Schleich´s name, however, won the best sound through his very excellent "smoke pictures." A plate held by chance over the smoldering tallow candle, in whose accumulated soot the painter scribbled with a fidibus "gave our Schleich a welcome opportunity to open up a new terrain to his ingenuity, and the lightly cast over it promised durability and duration."
Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler."
Inscription: scratched on the bottom right "Schleich".
Technique: smoke painting on plate, magnificent original period frame.
Measurements: unframed w 9 2/3" x h 7 7/8" (24,5 x 20 cm), framed w 13 1/2" x h 12" (34,5 x 30,5 cm)
Condition: in very good condition. |