« Elias Riedinger (…) has been one of the greatest draughtsmen of the fair game.
We say draughtsman though he was actually painter,
but his drawings and etched sheets, which he did in abundance,
usually are to be preferred over the paintings,
especially the stags of this master are esteemed … »
Johann Heinrich Meyer, (History of Art
[Manuscript between 1809 and 1815 by the Zurich painter/etcher colleague, 1755-1829]), Weimar 1974, p. 290,
quoted from Rainer Michaelis, (The German Paintings of the 18th Cent.
Catalog of the Berlin Inventory), 2002, pp. 173 f.
JOHANN ELIAS RIDINGER
Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767
books · drawings · etchings · mezzotints · paintings
In the order of the catalogs raisonné
Thienemann & Stillfried and the Catalog of the Gutmann Collection (Schwarz)
unknown sheets placed in front, drawings integrated as far as possible
- A Two-Year-Old Stag which has the spikes grown with velvet on, and not yet formed points (Th. 197)
- A Stag of 6 points, which is hurt and fugitive (Th. 198)
- A Stag of 6 Points that is wounded and fugitive
Hermann Menzler’s tone lithograph after Th. 198 - A Stag of 8 points, which walks quite confidentially, and moves to the wood (Th. 199)
- A Fair Mountain Stag of 10 points, as such goes after the deer with cries (Th. 200)
- A Stag of 12. points which is in Full Flight
Unused rotogravure postcard after Th. 201 - A Stag of 16 points, which to cool himself takes the pasture at the water (Th. 203)
- A Strong Rutting Stag of 18 points, which to cool from the heat lies in a spring or wallow (Th. 204)
- A Strong Stag of 20 points, as he cuts through an ant-hill with his weight, and paws the ground with the legs in rage (Th. 205)
- A Strong Stag of 20 Points who … ransacks an Ant Hill with the Antlers
Hermann Menzler’s tone lithograph after Th. 205
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