18th Century Johann Elias Ridinger Male Academy Drawing

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Johann Elias Ridinger was a German artist best known for his engravings of wild animals such as rhinoceros, elk and … Read more Johann Elias Ridinger was a German artist best known for his engravings of wild animals such as rhinoceros, elk and lians,. Widely regarded for his unting scenes, his work often featured men chasing down game on horseback. Ridinger's aesthetic was influenced by the Rococo movement in its sylization of forms, curved ornamentation, and compositional approach. The artis used brown pen and ink for his studies which would then be turned into dinely detailed mezzotints. Born on February 16, 1698 in Ulm Germany, Ridinger went on to train under the painter Christoph Resch and the engraver Georg Phillpp Rugendas. He later founded his own publishing house in Augsburg, Germany and went on to become the director of thjeAugsburg Stadtakademie. Today, Ridinger's work are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, among others. He died on April 10 1767 in Augsburg, Germany. See less