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| Adrian Ludwig Richter (Dresden 1803 - Dresden 1884)
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| Shepherd with his Family, surrounded by Goats
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Pencil, watercolour
Signed and dated lower right: L. Richter 1847
167 x 242 mm
Along with Moritz von Schwind Richter ranks as the most important representative of late Romantic painting and printmaking in Germany. In contrast to such leading masters of the early Romantic period as Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, whose work was ambitious in content and innovative in form, Richter’s art was more modest in its aims, in line with the restrained intellectual climate of the Biedermeier period.
During his first sojourn to Italy (1823-1826), Richter visited Naples, Florence and Rome, where he met other artists, such as Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Wilhelm von Kügelgen, Ernst Fries, and Joseph Anton Koch, who became his teacher in landscape painting. After returning to Germany, Richter was in charge of the drawing class at the Meissen porcelain factory between 1828 and 1835, before moving to Dresden where he was appointed professor at the Academy. Richter is not only well-known as a painter and draughtsman, but also as a printmaker. Together with the publisher Wigand in Leipzig, between 1836 and 1876 Richter published numerous print- and woodcut series for book illustrations, poems and fairy tales. Our drawing may well have been made in view of such a publication.
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