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THBAfter Eduard von Grutzner (1846-1925) German, Oil on Canvas
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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After Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925) German, Comical Monks Oil on Canvas. Similar to Grützner's "The Catastrophe" (1892), with a slight shift in perspective, showing a monk in a wine cellar who has fallen and broken a wine bottle and another who is judging him for it standing above him. Signature bottom right.
Overall Size: 29 x 38 in.
Sight Size: 19 1/2 x 28 in.
Frame Thickness: 3 in.
#8496
Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner was born on May 26th, 1846, into a noble family in Groß-Karlowitz near Neisse, Upper Silesia, Prussia (now Poland). His father was a prominent member of the church, and the local pastor often visited his parents’ home. The pastor recognized Eduard’s talent and inclination for painting early on and requested that the manager of a ducal country house in the neighborhood provide him with drawing paper. Eventually the pastor helped Grützner gain entrance to the Gymnasium of Neisse, and in 1864 the pastor brought Grützner to the private school of Hermann Dyck in Munich for further art education. At first in the vocational Kunstgewerbeschule under Dyck, he soon transferred to the Classical Art class of Johann Georg Hiltensperger and Alexander Ströhuber, where the focus was on the aesthetic ideals of antiquity. In 1865 Grützner joined the painting class of Hermann Anschütz at the Munich Academy but began to seek advice and inspiration from Carl Theodor von Piloty, whose class he joined in 1867. Piloty’s class included aspiring artists from Hungary, Greece, Germany, Russia, and Poland, exposing Grützner to an incredible array of styles, themes, and history. After three years under Piloty Grützner left the academy and formed his own studio in a Munich Garden house. He became very successful and was a prolific painter, producing realistic and humorous portraits particularly of monks and other religious figures. In 1874 Grützner married Barbara Link, with whom he had a daughter. Barbara died in 1884, and four years later he married Anna Grützner Wirthmann, the daughter of a Munich garrison commander, to avoid scandal for getting her pregnant out of wedlock. The marriage was not harmonious, and eventually she left him for a Viennese singer. In 1880 Grützner was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael (also known as the Knight’s Cross), First Class, and in 1886 he was granted the title of “professor” by Luitpold Ludwig, Prince Regent of Bavaria. By then Grützner was an avid collector of art, first favoring pieces from the German late Gothic and early Renaissance and later drawn to work from the Middle Ages as well as the Far East. Some of them were featured in the backgrounds of his compositions, and he frequently used them for references when he worked. In his old age he sought solace in Chinese philosophy and taught himself to read Japanese works. In his final works he sometimes included a Buddha figure or a Chinese vase in his paintings and became world famous for his numerous depictions of a corpulent, lusty, gregarious version of Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff. He was knighted in 1916 and was considered one of Munich’s leading genre painters along with Carl Spitzweg and Franz von Defregger, although he suffered from severe depression in his final days. He died on April 2nd, 1925, at his home in Munich.
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29 x 38 x 3 in.
