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“ Had to be paid for as a Rarity very Dearly ”The immediate reproductionof the Tiger-Horse with the quite uniqueEar-BouquetRidinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Tiger-Horse with Ear-Bouquet. The stallion in wonderfully light exercise in a beauty hilly landscape with village standing separated from five horses partly romping and rolling and looking at the viewer. After the portrait painted from life by worked after the painting from life by the amateur artist baron Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern (1701 Darmstadt 1754). Etching with engraving. Inscribed: Lib: Baro de Löwenstern ad viv: pinx. Darmst. / J. El. Ridinger sc. et excud. 1745 + as subtext in German:
35 x 28.5 cm. The portrait of the Promnitz trouvaille painted as a hippological wonder thinkably already during the return and entrusted Ridinger as first resort for this for immediate documentation within his running series of zoologically exemplary examples to sheet 38 (Thienemann + Schwarz 280, “The six horses contained in this collection later had been sold also separately”) of the “Representation of the Wondrous Stags and Other Animals”. Baron von Löwenstern, closely connected with the Darmstadt court and working already as a poet and composer, was like Goethe an amateur artist of a, however, most extensive painted œuvre
(Thieme-Becker XXIII [1929], 328). Beyond of this all in the case here of finally family and contemporarily historical high importance the thematic reference to the Silesian immediate counts von Promnitz rooting in deep history as purchaser of the thoroughbred “Tiger”. Since 1542 in possession of the dominion Pleß in the administrative district Oppeln with ancestralscats in Sorau + Pleß the family brought force several members of general importance. Although the dominion came into the possession of the house Anhalt-Koethen already in 1765 (after the die out of the Promnitz family already at that time?), the “Hunting Castle” Promnitz survived the centuries up to now and in the fall of 1913 it served to the German emperor Wilhelm II as well as a place of work as a refuge for stalking, so, i. a., on the known one of 26 points hunted on September 12. During the World War I temporarily imperial headquarter “ three decisions of far-reaching importance have been made in Pleß ,
(Andreas Gautschi in Gautschi and Rakow, [Wilhelm II and the Chase]. Bothel, Nimrod publishing house F. Rakow, 2006, pp. 234 f. along with illustrations of castle + park Pless and especially of the “study of His Majesty in the Hunting Castle Promnitz [Pless]“). For Promnitz see also [General German Biography] XXVI (1888), pp. 663 f.; Magno, [Historical Description of the Residential Town Sorau of the Immediate High Counts Promnitz], Leipsic 1710; König, [Biographic Lexicon of all Heroes and Military Persons which have risen to Fame in Prussian Service], vol. III, Berlin 1790; Bülau, [Secret Stories and Enigmatic Men], vol. II, 2nd ed., Leipsic 1863.
(Mr. A. C., March 27, 2008) |