Post 212 -by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY feature on ART of Architecture
Anton Schrödl (1820-1906) was an Austrian painter of animals and genre scenes of rural areas. His family members were craft’s persons, his father was an ironmonger, and older-brother, was an ivory carver and sculptor. At the age of only thirteen, he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts. He began his career as a lithographer for the art publishers. During 1860-70 he worked as a garden designer. Animals and landscape paintings were his specialties. He travelled widely every summer, including a trip to Algeria, where he produced some very popular lithographs.
His work on rural scenes provides excellent
documentation on Austrian Rural Life of an age
when his contemporary painters were busy
capturing urban life, scenes of Venice, or exotic
and romantic life in the middle east and oriental
countries. He consistently uses dark earthy
browns to fill up the board edge to edge. He shows surface textures, both, through colour and shadows.
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