This winter forest landscape with hunters   by important Munich landscape painter Adolf Stademann (1825 - Munich - 1894 ). Adolf Stademann was the son of The painter Ferdinand von Stademann (* 1791 in Berlin), which relocated to Munich in 1812 and 1832 went as Government Adviser and Secretary of secret with King Otto to Greece. Ferdinand Stademann, who himself was also a draughtsman and lithographer, produced his best-known painting ´Panorama of Athens´ there later. After attending the gymnasium, Adolf Stademann was first active in the forestry trade, but soon shifted his father on landscape painting. He took lessons with the landscape and architectural painter Carl August Lebschée and the landscape painter Moritz Eduard Lotze. Stademann soon developed a unique style. In addition to country scenes he painted similar like Eduard Schleich d. elder night pictures. Later he specialized in, stimulated by the 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, winter landscape with figure staffages and impressionistic influences of Moonlight scenes.

Literature: Artist Lexicons by Benezit; Thieme & Becker; Hyacinth Holland: Stademann, Adolf. In the: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). V.54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908; Hermann Uhde-Bernays: Die Münchner Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert, 2. Teil, 1850–1900, München 1927.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: umframed w 17 3/4" x h 11 1/3" (45 x 29 cm), framed w 24" x h 17 1/2" (61 x 44,5 cm) .

Condition: in  good condition..