Carl Jutz the Elder (1838-1918), "Duck Family", 1881, Drawing

The German title on verso: "Familiengluck" (engl.transl.: Family Happiness).
Carl Jutz (also Carl Jutz the Elder) was born in 1838 in Windschläg, today the city of Offenburg, and died in 1916 in Pfaffendorf, today the city of Koblenz) was a German animal painter.
Carl Jutz came from an old Windschläger family. His father was the shoemaker Joseph Jutz. He was the fourth of nine children. He lived in Windschläg until 1845, when he moved with the family to Beuern, today Baden-Baden-Lichtental. While his father emigrated to the USA with his son Pirmin in 1853, Carl stayed in Beuern and his sisters Adelheid, Theresia and Cäcilia were housed with relatives in Windschläg until 1855. During this time he came into contact with the Dutch painter August Knip (1777-1847), who stayed in Baden-Baden and instructed Jutz in animal painting.
In 1861 he moved to Munich, where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Willroider and Anton Braith and, under their influence, devoted himself to animal painting. On his travels Jutz made contacts with Düsseldorf painters and moved to Düsseldorf in 1867, where he married Sybilla Karolina Adloff (1850-1927), the daughter of the landscape painter Carl Adloff, and where most of his works were created. His Düsseldorf house had a garden in which various types of fowl were kept for animal painting. From 1868 until his death, Jutz was a member of the artists' association "Malkasten". He spent his last years in Pfaffendorf near Koblenz.
Jutz was a very successful painter, whose paintings aroused great interest in the exhibitions at that time between Hamburg, Dresden, Munich and Vienna. As early as 1867 Jutz exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition, 1879 in Sydney, where he received a medal, and in 1881 at the World Exhibition in Melbourne. His main works were in great demand in England and the USA, but German museums in Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Breslau and Königsberg also purchased his works during Jutz' lifetime.
Jutz's subjects extended almost exclusively to the poultry farms and yards. He grouped the birds with meticulous and almost photographic accuracy against the background of rural scenery, whereby the special intensity of the colors cought the eye. He also painted other animals and landscapes (less often), for example on trips that he regularly made to his home in Baden, among other places.
His son Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz (called Carl Jutz the Younger, 1873-1915) was an important landscape painter, whose paintings are also often offered at auctions today (©Wikipedia, translated from German).

Condition: In good condition, unframed.

Creation Year: 1881

Measurements: UNFRAMED: 24.7cm x 35.1cm / 9.7” x 13.8” inches

Object Type: Unframed drawing

Technique: pencil on thick paper

Inscription: signed, dated 1881; verso titled in German


Keywords:
JUTZ THE ELDER, CARL, ANIMAL; ANIMALIST; BIRD; WILDLIFE; POND; RIVERBANK; LANDSCAPE; DUCK

In good condition, unframed.