Krüger, Eugen (Altona/Hamburg 1832 – Düsternbrook/Kiel 1876). Chalk lithographs printed with mostly beige tone plate from the  FIRST  EDITION  of the 22 sheet set incl. title “(The Hunt drawn and lithographed)” (Souhart 275; Rump 40). (1861-62.) C. 25 x 32 cm.

Not  in  Schwerdt! – Thieme-Becker XXI, 593 + Boetticher I/2, 808 f., all with the second edition only which was published in 1867 as “(Game and Forest)”. – On light cardboard. – On the back mostly slight to minimal foxing only, on the front side only isolated within the picture and then superposed by the tone plate, otherwise affecting the white margin only.

On occasion of the new edition of 1867 honoured

with  the  Prussian  Medal  for  the  Arts

the painterly suite as a whole – and all the more in its largely unknown original edition which was spread over 7 issues – is

of  outmost  rarity.

Krüger, “landscape and animal painter, also lithographer … learned lithography in Altona and in Vienna, before he turned to landscape painting … settled (after travels and studies in Dusseldorf) in Hamburg where he started his album on hunting ‘Game and Forest’, that, completed in 1867 (new edition! see above), was honoured with the Prussian Medal of the Arts”. His travels led him throughout Europe, his early death caused his work being small and thus desired. “An ‘Eugen Krüger (Memorial) Exhibition’ with works mostly in private collections … took place in Hamburg at the beginning of 1877” (Boetticher).

Snipe Hunt. In front at the water to attentive hounds, the birds at which one of the hunters in the reed points his gun already in view.
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Snipe Hunt. Below a tree in moonlit twilight the hunter with his dog pointing his gun at one of the two fowls flying in.
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Wood Grouse Courting. (Morning.) Cowered behind a rock on the hilltop the hunter points his gun at the courting capercaillie. Mountain and fir wood decoration.
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Badger Hunt with badger finder. In a misty moonlit night the latter holds a badger at bay, the three huntsmen with lantern still approaching.
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Foxes at the Earth. Before the hole in thick underwood two playing young foxes while the old vixen only shows her head among the foliage.
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Fox Lodge. Winter scenery in a full moon. On the clearing a dead horse at which the fox is caught by the fire from the hut. A second one tries to get out of harm’s way.
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Rabbit Hunt with the ferret. One is catched by the assistant when leaving the earth while others are caught in nets or already laid to the bag besides the pickaxe. Meanwhile the hunter reloads. On the left the cage for the ferrets.
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Drive up to Red Deer. In front at the edge of a meadow two antlers with three hinds. Far off in the background the hunting wagon suspiciously looked at.
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„ Hartelijk dank voor de zorgvulige wijze … Voor mij bent u de Mercedes onder de prentenhandelaren! “

(de heer P. E., 24. Januar 2008)