Krüger, Eugen (Altona/Hamburg 1832 – Düsternbrook/Kiel 1876). Snipe Hunt. Below a tree in moonlit twilight the hunter with his dog pointing his gun at one of the two fowls flying in. Chalk lithograph printed with pale green tone plate for Boyes & Geisler in Hamburg. (1861-62.) Inscribed: Gez. u. lith. v. E. Krüger, title in German as before. 25 x 31.8 cm.
From the First Edition of the 22 sheet set incl. title “(The Hunt drawn and lithographed)” (Souhart 275; Rump 40). – With the printer’s address “(Printed by Winckelmann & Sons in Berlin)”.
Not in Schwerdt! – Thieme-Becker XXI, 593 + Boetticher I/2, 808 f., each with the second edition only published in 1867 as “(Game and Forest)” by O. Meissner in Hamburg. – On light cardboard. – On the back foxing, on the front not affecting the image and only slightly perceptible in the white margin.
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 in early 1877” (Boetticher).
Offer no. 28,890 / EUR 360. / export price EUR 342. (c. US$ 466.) + shipping
„ … sind die Dachse perfekt verpackt und verschnürt bei mir … angekommen. Schon das Auspacken des Bildes hat mir große Freude gemacht und der ‚Ridinger‘ gefällt mir sehr gut, da es eine realistische Stimmung am Bau wiederspiegelt … werde ihn unter meiner Dachsschwarte aufhängen … Ich nehme dies zum Anlaß auch weiterhin in ihrem Fundus zu suchen … Besonderen Dank auch für die Beilage der Dez. 08 Ausgabe von Wild & Hund mit dem gelungenen (Ridinger-)Artikel … Ihnen nochmals herzlichen Dank für ihre fabelhafte Arbeit … “
(Herr K. R., 19. Juni 2009)