Hugo Mühlig born in 1854 in Dresden (Germany) and died in 1929.
Famous for painting rural scenes, especially of men hunting.
"Game" was a natural byproduct of small-holdings where nearly every home/garden/field had a rock-pile, a couple of fruit trees, 300 feet of hedgerow, a stock-pond, a shade tree and a coppice for small-wood. If "game" was not harvested, Peter Cottontail would devastate the garden. And you were wasteful if you did not consume him after you harvested him.
And another tip of the hat to Lucas Machias
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There are other things that drive diversity that shows up in these images. The hay-stacks are magnets for mice which in turn will feed fox, hawks, owls and feral cats. Large animals produce manure which is a prime driver of flies which feed pheasant, partridge and quail as well as song-birds.
Lucas, where do you find all of this beautiful art? ---ken
ReplyDeleteMostly facebook but I don't find it. You look at something a few times and the algorithm feeds it to you.
DeleteA lot of it is pulled from other sites such as.
https://www.artrenewal.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Renewal_Center
There is loads of art online.
Thanks much. I have a niece in her 40s who has become aware that times were not always like they are now and that we have lost something. We got talking about art and I suggested that she could get a good idea of life as it has been historically by looking at 19th century or earlier paintings and not assuming that present narratives are the reality of our cultural past. You have helped out a lot. Thanks again, and thanks Joe for posting it. We as a decaying culture need this kind of reminder. ken
DeleteThanks ERJ (And Lucas). I like the muted colour scheme.
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