Bernhard Mühlig Lot n° 18

Bernhard Mühlig, Alpine landscape with hunted game (Wetterstein Mountains?). 1858. Bernhard Mühlig1829 Eibenstock - 1910 Dresden Oil on canvas. Signed "B. Mühlig" and dated on the left. Framed in a profiled gold-coloured wooden frame. Painting layer with slight climatic edge. Partly with age craquelure, inconspicuous vertical cracks in the painting layer. Mi. left two tiny missing parts (max. ca. 3 x 2 mm) in the painting layer in the area of the vegetation. Some retouching within the left half of the painting. Pressure marks due to framing and partial abrasion in the marginal areas. The edges rubbed, u.r. two spots with loss of painting layer (ca. 12 x 3 mm) and a small hole (ca. 10 x 3 mm). At the lower margin at the cover edge the canvas with two tears (each c. 2 cm). Old varnish partly removed over large areas. Slight differences in gloss of the surface. Measures: 51 x 71 cm, Ra. 58.5 x 79.5 cm. Bernhard Mühlig 1829 Eibenstock - 1910 Dresden Landscape, animal a. genre painter. Brother of the painter Meno, father of Albert Ernst Mühlig. Studied painting at the academy of arts in Dresden. Since 1852 he exhibited his works of art at the Dresden art exhibitions. 1853 commissioned by Hermann Wilhelm von Witzleben to paint the most beautiful motifs during a common hike through Bohemia. Around 1900, 50 of these pictures came into the possession of the Zwickau collection of paintings. The brothers Bernhard and Meno Mühlig belonged to the Dresden circle of the late Romantics.