Karl Mücke 1849-1923
Karl Emil Mücke became known as a genre and animal painter of the Düsseldorf School.
He was born in Düsseldorf in 1849, the son of the painter Heinrich Mücke. His father and the artist Karl Ferdinand Sohn (Wilhelm Sohn's uncle) were among the founders of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten". The artists' association was founded in 1848 and is still active today.
Karl Mücke himself later joined the association, as did the artist Josef Fay, the father of Ludwig Benno Fay. [1]
Karl Emil Mücke studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts from 1863 to 1870 and took private lessons with Wilhelm Sohn.
In the following years, between 1870 and 1890, he often stayed in the Netherlands and was inspired there.
Between 1877 and 1888 he lived in Volendam in North Holland, where he found the characteristic motifs for his paintings: Dutch genre scenes, situations from everyday family life, mostly with women and children dressed in traditional costumes, in the company of dogs and cats, in old-Dutch interiors or on the sea shore.
In many of these depictions, a white, medium-sized Pomeranian can be seen faithfully keeping watch at the side of his people.
Joint work with Ludwig Benno Fay
Fay created portraits similar to Mücke, which show everyday situations in rural areas with people, especially horses and dogs.
Mücke and Fay were both painters of the Düsseldorf School and knew each other through their families.
Together they produced some very impressive collaborations from this period, which were also signed by both.
This includes, among other things, the work "The Homecoming", which shows a smaller Spitz accompanying a young couple on a white gray horse:
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[1] QUELLEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES KÜNSTLERVEREINS MALKASTEN - Ein Zentrum bürgerlicher Kunst und Kultur in Düsseldorf seit 1848, bearbeitet von Sabine Schroyen in Verbindung it Hans-Werner Langbrandtner
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