ARTIST: Arthur Johann A Severin Nikutowski (Germany, 1830 - 1888)
NAME: Abschied des Landsturmmannes, 1876
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few very minor scratches/paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 17 x 22 inches / 43 x 55 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Johann Arthur Severin Nikutovsky was a Prussian artist and teacher of Polish origin, a representative of the Dusseldorf Art School. He mainly painted genre and battle paintings.He received his primary art education in Konigsberg, then continued it at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts under Karl Friedrich Lessing; in 1859, following his teacher, he moved to Karlsruhe, and in 1865 he returned to Dusseldorf, where he lived until the end of his life.His first works were small-format genre paintings; later he painted battle scenes, including those depicting the events of the January Uprising of 1863 in Russian Poland. From 1880 until his death in 1888, Nikutovsky was a professor of anatomy at the Dusseldorf Academy. This period includes his works on comparative anatomy and the theory of proportions, which were not published. His passion was also the depiction of galloping horses (including groups of horses), and paintings on this subject were often highly acclaimed by critics.His son Erich (1872-1921) also became an artist and devoted himself mainly to landscape painting.Of the paintings by Nikutovsky, the more famous are "Crossing the Berezina", "Russian sentries hunt down Polish smugglers", "French flight after the Battle of Leipzig", "Return of the warrior", "Funeral of a Polish freedom fighter", "Fire in the village", "Prayer before the battle".