Description Charcoal drawing, heightened with white, 40 x 34,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Koester, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - One of the most famous German animal painters. K. studied at the Karlsruhe academy among others by L. von Kalckreuth and later settled in Klausen in Tyrol. His works were shown on major exhibitions, in Munich, Berlin a. St. Louis he was awarded gold medals. After the outbreak of World War I he settled in Die?en by the Ammersee, but also made trips to Lake Constance to study the effects of large water expanses. Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Chemnitz, Graz, Breslau, Bucharest a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Stein/Koester: A.K., Leben und Werk, 1988.
Artist or Maker Koester, Alexander
Notes Charcoal drawing, heightened with white, 40 x 34,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Koester, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame.