Lot 454: Grazing Sheep

Heinrich von Zügel Murrhardt/Württ. 1850 - München 1941 Oil/canvas, 46,5 x 67,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. H. Zügel, on the stretcher label of gallery Commeter Hamburg. - Animal painter, one of the important German exponents of impressionism. Z. studied at the Stuttgart art school under B. von Neher a. H. von Rustige. He settled in Munich where he became professsor in 1889 a. co-founder of the local secession in 1892. He won many prizes at international exhibitonis a. was ennobled in 1907. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Florence, Budapest, New York a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker.