For Sale – "Forester at Home" Prints

For Sale - "Forester at Home" Print:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ludwig Knaus was one of the most accomplished painters of 19-century Germany; this work, The Forester at Home (1886) in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is considered his masterpiece.  

Born and apprenticed in the city of Wiesbaden, Knaus went to Dusseldorf at a young age and studied at the famous Dusseldorf Academy, where he adopted the realistic style of the Old Masters. In The Forester at Home, Knaus portrayed the forester before a crackling fire in his cabin with his faithful hound by his side. He is surrounded by glistening pots and kettles, and trophies of the hunt. Knaus' highly skilled technique is seen here, for the individual strokes of his paintbrush are almost invisible.

Ludwig Knaus was one of the most successful painters of his day; his works were prized not only by German collectors, but by Americans as well.  When The Forester at Home was exhibited at the Berlin Salon of 1886, it was spotted by William Wilson Corcoran himself. By virtue of "its perfect drawing, color, and realistic qualities,: reads a document of the time, "The Forester at Home was secured my Mr. Corcoran above all other competitors," and thus entered the collection in 1887.