alpine cattle, oil on canvas, 70 cm x 100 cm, signed, Munich 1902 inscribed and dated, partly craquelure, partly small paint chips, small water stain on verso on the canvas, Literature: Uwe Degreif (ed.): Anton Braith. Tiermaler in München, Augsburg 2005, p. 278f. with ill.
Anton Braith was a German animal and landscape painter. He studied at the Stuttgart Art School and then moved to Munich, where he later became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts himself. His oeuvre shows deeper specialisations in the combination of animal and landscape, but he stood to this subject and became one of the most famous German painters of his time after Friedrich Voltz. His success was probably also based on his knowledge of animals, their anatomy, their movements and their clearly observable behaviour, as in the case of an alpine cattle.
