Karl Knabl

Karl Knabl (26 January 1850, in Munich – 15 June 1904, in Munich) was a German landscape and genre painter.

Biography

He was born in Munich, the son of sculptor Joseph Knabl. He first practiced sculpture under his father's instruction, but became a genre painter as a pupil of Karl Theodor von Piloty. Of his genre paintings, his motifs usually involved the lower classes of society.

Paintings

• German: Der bestohlene Geizhals, ("The robbed miser", 1874).
• Die Schusterwerkstatt, ("The cobbler's workshop", 1875).
• Die kleinen Zitherspieler ("The small zither player", 1878).
• An Undiscovered Genius (1879).
• Die Holzfahrt im bayrischen Hochgebirge ("The ride through the woods in the Bavarian mountains", 1883).
• Wilderer, ("Poachers", 1890).
• Auf der Alm, ("On the Alm", 1897).

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