« … one of the most excellent German XVIII century graphic artists …
This artist was fairly underestimated in the past,
but his rank in art history rises higher and higher in time. »
Alojzy Oborny, Director of the National Museum at Kielce,
in the noble Polish-German exhibition catalog
to the large 1997/98 Polish Ridinger touring exhibition
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
- From the imperial riding-stable at Vienna :
Anno 1740 this noble Horse so a white Horse spotted with light and dark brown, also grey spots (Th. 286) - Dramatic par force transformed into breath-catching art assoluta
In 1731. have drawn this Image (of 2 Stags) in the Park of Nymphenburg towards Starnberg (near Munich) from Nature.
The original printing plate for Th. 287 - “That was Men’s Work”
In the Year 1720. Have drawn this Bear Hunt from the Nature (Th. 289) - The European pelican :
Glutton! On the Danube between Peterwardein and Belgrade in 1740 (Th. 290) - In the Year 1741. in the Month of Septembr: This Stag of 16 Points Has been shot at the High Princely Hunting Lodge Jægerthal in the Forest Romrod by His Princely Serenity the ruling Sir Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (Louis VIII) himself (Th. 292)
- The one and only Nassau Provenance of the Œuvre
and the one and only Saarbrücken Locality, too :
In the Year 1674 (recte 1746) … this Striped Stag … has been shot …
The original printing plate for Th. 296 - Rare the fox , yet foremost instructive the gun
Anno 1720. His Excellency the Count of Ohringen himself has shot this entirely white fox close to Ohrenthal (Th. 298) - The 28-Pointer with the Leader
This Stag of 28 Points has been shot … at Hesse-Darmstadt near Battenberg … 1742
The original printing plate for Th. 299 - An “Animal Soul Painter”? — Then here!
This Snub=Eared Main Boar with cropped Tail which on the left side had the large Tusk broken off and on the right the Tusks grown crosswise … (Th. 300) - This Snub=Eared Main Boar with cropped Tail which on the left side had the large Tusk broken off and on the right the Tusks grown crosswise … (Th. 300)
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„ das schöne Blatt (Ridinger’s Mariae Verkündigung Schwarz 1516) ist heute wohlbehalten bei mir angekommen … Besten Dank! “
(Herr M. B., 19. März 2018)