Johann Christian Kröner, Schaf in Landschaft
fine animal painting captured with a pointed brush, oil on wood ...

Johann Christian Kröner, Schaf in Landschaft
fine animal painting captured with a pointed brush, oil on wood, signed in black lower left, c. 1900, good condition in keeping with its age, framed in deeply fluted, leaf-gilt and pearl-banded moulding, folding dimensions c. 16 x 17 cm. Artist's info: actually Johann Christian Kröner. Hunting and landscape painter as well as graphic artist (1838 Rinteln/Weser to 1911 Düsseldorf), apprenticeship as a house painter, went to Munich to the artists' colony Brannenburg and here he became acquainted with Louis Hugo Becker, Wilhelm Busch, Carl Irmer and Julius Rollman, went to Düsseldorf in 1863, here he joined the artists' association Malkasten, study trips to Westphalia, Thuringia and Upper Bavaria, thereby autodidactic further education, became known as a hunt painter, also gave private lessons, his pupils included Magda Helmcke (later his wife), Edmund Osthaus, Franz Gehrts and Anton Henker, received a gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, appointed royal professor in 1893, represented at numerous world exhibitions, member of the Berlin Academy from 1885, Source: Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.