Lot 484: Hunting Party with Stag

Koch Georg Karl, Berlin 1857 - Berlin 1931, Hunting Party with Stag, Oil/canvas, 75,5 x 100,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. G. Koch. - German history, sports a. animal painter from an artist's family. K. was initially trained by his father Carl K., thereafter he studied at the Berlin academy under K. Steffeck, P. Meyerheim a. C. Gussow. He became famous for his large-scale panoramic views often executed together with E. Bracht. Later he turned to animal painting. In 1899 he became professor in Berlin a. exhibited at all major exhibitions in Europe a. America. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker.