Bernhard Mühlig
Bernhard Mühlig (born January 10, 1829 in Eibenstock , † September 6, 1910 in Dresden ) was a German landscape , genre and animal painter .
Life
Bernhard Mühlig was the father of Albert Ernst Mühlig (1862–1909) and brother of Meno Mühlig (1823–1873). The artist studied painting at the Dresden Academy . He exhibited his works at the Dresden art exhibitions since 1852. In 1853 Hermann Wilhelm von Witzleben commissioned the painter to capture the most beautiful motifs in small pictures during a hike through Bohemia. Through an estate donation by Julie von Witzleben, Dresden, 50 of these pictures came into the possession of the Zwickau painting collection around 1900 .
The brothers Bernhard and Meno Mühlig belonged to the Dresden circle of late romanticists .
Exhibitions
- 2001: The Erzgebirge in the paintings of Bernhard and Meno Mühlig . Zwickau City Museum
literature
- Thieme-Becker, Volume XXV, 1931, p. 214
- Petra Lewey-Meier among others: The Zwickau painting collection: selected works , art collections of the municipal museums of Zwickau, Kerber, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 159 ff.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mühlig, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, genre and animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eibenstock |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1910 |
| Place of death | Dresden |