Deer in the Forest, Hunting Gouache by the German Hunting Painter Kröner

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Christian Kröner

Rinteln 1838 - 1911 Düsseldorf

Landscape with Roe Deer

Gouache

Signed lower right

Size: 17 x 26.5 cm

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Rinteln 1838 - 1911 Düsseldorf

Landscape with Roe Deer

Gouache

Signed lower right

Size: 17 x 26.5 cm

Frame: 38 x 48 cm

Good original condition

Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

Christian Kröner, son of the decorative painter Johann Kröner (1788–1848) and his wife Clara Regina, née Meyer (1792–1862), attended the Gymnasium (grammar school) in his hometown until 1852 and subsequently worked as an apprentice for his brother, who had taken over their father's painting business. Alongside this, he practiced sketching from nature. It was not until 1861 that he was able to dedicate himself more fully to art. He initially went to Munich and then to the artists' colony of Brannenburg, where he painted landscapes and met local painters, including Carl Irmer, Wilhelm Busch, Julius Rollmann, and Louis Hugo Becker. In 1862, he returned to Rinteln. In 1863, he moved to Düsseldorf. There, he joined the landscape painter Louis Hugo Becker, moved within the circles of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, joined the artists' association Malkasten, and furthered his skills as a landscape and animal painter through self-study and frequent trips to Upper Bavaria, Thuringia, and especially Westphalia. A hunter himself, he observed the life and activities of game animals in both calm and dramatic moments and was able to depict them with sharp characterization, soon achieving considerable renown. His circle of friends in Düsseldorf included Gustav Süs, Karl Bertling, and Eduard Geselschap, as well as Albert Baur, Eugen Dücker, and Carl Irmer. At the turn of the century, he was undoubtedly considered the leading hunting painter of Düsseldorf's animal painting scene.

Kröner taught students privately. from 1868 to 1872, Julius Arthur Thiele was his private student, as was Anton Henke during this time. Between 1870 and 1884, Adeline Countess von Reventlow was one of his students, followed after 1874 by Olga Meissner. Around 1880, Franz Gehrts and Edmund Osthaus were among his pupils, and around 1883, Nelson Kinsley. from 1879, Magda Helmcke (1854–1935) received landscape painting lessons from him, whom he married in 1883 after four years of instruction. Hanny Stüber, who later trained female painters herself, was also one of his students. The Kröner studios and home at Pempelforter Straße 62 formed a cultural center in Düsseldorf. Of his two sons, Erwin Kröner also became a painter. One of his last students was the hunting and landscape painter Albert Holz. This piece has an attribution mark,
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