Christian Mali

Christian Friedrich Mali ( born October 6, 1832 in Darthuizen, The Netherlands, † October 1, 1906 in Munich) was a German painter and professor in Munich. He is the younger brother of the painter Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Mali.

Life

Christian Mali was the youngest of 10 siblings, who owned almost all artistic talent. His sister was married to the Dutch painter Pieter Francis Peters, who exercised an influence on Christian Mali and his brother Jan. After the rapid death of his father in 1833 Mali came with his mother to Württemberg and was until 1858 worked as Xylograph in Stuttgart. He moved to his brother Jan to Munich, where he met his friend Anton Braith 1860. It was formed from in landscape painting, in which he also joined the architectural painting as a result of a trip to Italy. At the time of the evening came in Verona ( Neue Pinakothek, Munich), lot of Venice and The Monastery Maulbronn.

Mali in 1865 went to Dusseldorf, and thence to Paris, where the study of the works Troyon and its influence prompted him to devote himself to painting animals, especially sheep.

On April 14, 1905 Christian Mali was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Biberach an der Riss. After his death he was transferred at his own request to Biberach and buried next to his friend Anton Braith in the Catholic cemetery. His artistic legacy, his studio and 60,000 marks, he bequeathed to the city Biberach.

Works

His early, more scenic images belong Partenkirchen, part of the Swabian Alb, Kochem on the Moselle River, Lake Hallstatt and summer day on the women's island ( together with Jan Cornelis Johann Mali).

Among the later, at which outweighs the animal Masked include The home pulling herd, morning and evening in the village, The shepherd's morning greeting, The rainy cattle market, sheep at approaching storm, The table d' hote in the barn, sheep in spring, Dorfpartie on Lake Constance and A morning in Amalfi.

Discount

The richly appointed studio showrooms from Munich with the estates of Anton Braith and Christian Mali are now on display in Braith - Mali - Museum in Biberach an der Riss. They are rare examples of well-preserved art studios of the 19th century and are a cultural monument of the first order.