Krüger, Eugen (Altona/Hamburg 1832 – Düsternbrook/Kiel 1876). 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. Chalk lithograph printed with grey-olive tone plate for Boyes & Geisler in Hamburg. (1861-62.) Inscribed: Gez. u. Lith. (sic!) v. E. Krüger, title in German as before. 26.9 x 31.9 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., all with the second edition only which was published in 1867 as “(Game and Forest)” by O. Meissner in Hamburg. – On light cardboard. – At the back slightly foxing, on the front perceptible in 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).
Offer no. 28,891 / EUR  430. / export price EUR  409. (c. US$ 530.) + shipping

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