Meno Muhlig (1823-1873)
Owls
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray-brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of lead pencil
Signed lower right 29 x 22 cm
Meno Muhlig was the brother of the painter Bernhard Muhlig (1829-1910) and the father of the landscape and animal painter Hugo Muhlig (1854-1929). He studied at the Dresden Academy with Julius Hubner.
The brothers Bernhard and Meno Muhlig belonged to the circle of Dresden’s late Romantics.
In addition to Reformation and seventeenth-century motifs, Meno Muhlig painted poachers and showmen. In 1845, together with Julius Doring and Karl Wilhelm Schurig, he illustrated the book ‘Germany and the German People in the Descriptions of Eduard Duller’.
