Animal painter

The animal painting is in addition to the landscape painting, history painting, the portrait, the genre painting and the still life a genre of figurative painting.

History

In the 16th century, the " game scene " has developed into an area of still life; as one of the most famous examples of the hare was handed down, a watercolor by Albrecht Dürer. The Dutchman Roelant Savery, Frans Snyders and Paul Potter staffierten in the 17th century landscape paintings with animal groups.

During the Enlightenment, intensified interest in the morphological peculiarities of nature, especially the faunas; the artists sought the view of the living object. The French court painter Jean -Baptiste Oudry made ​​drawings and color studies in the menagerie of King Louis XV. at Versailles, and then represent the animals in the studio in life size to. George Stubbs was one of the most Pferdeporträtisten of the 18th century in England.

In the 19th century animal painting in the genre painting became popular; decisive factor was increased by natural history education demand a wide audience by animal representations.

Animals " after life "

The establishment of Zoological Gardens and the performances migratory animal shows increasingly aroused people's interest in animals and their habits. The Animals was a lucrative profession for the painters that also the increased demand for sophisticated drawings nachkamen to equip the journals and magazines as well as the natural history textbooks, with illustrations from life. The familiar animals to the environment and the pets were also for sale promising subject for the artist.

Edwin Landseer, its lifelike paintings of animals in the title alluded to human social practices, the most famous animal painter in England was knighted at the time of Queen Victoria and for his art. Paul Friedrich Meyer home presented in numerous paintings represent scenes from traveling menageries, which also found a photo engravings paragraph. Heinrich people man devoted to the presentation of Carl Hagenbeck's animal and human zoos and worked as an animal illustrator for the gazebo and the Munich picture sheet. The preferred subject Anton Braiths were sheep and cows, which he occasionally referred to as the photograph corresponding current recordings continued into the painted image.

With the onset of photographic reproduction techniques the end of the 19th century, took over in the 20th century, the photography, the task of painted and drawn representations of animals after life.

Modern Animals

While the animal representation was often used as a replacement for the missing or not sufficiently developed photography in the past, representations of animals to be seen in the presence and under the aspect of dynamics or design. In this form of representation is not realistic picture of body and shape in the foreground, but the play of colors, combined with fragments of movement. Often artists try this also to convey emotions.