Karl Knabl

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.^[1]

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).^[1]^[2]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Knabl, Joseph". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

1 2 Knabl Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Band 11. Leipzig 1907, S. 163.
↑ Hitz - Kozub / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus Deutsche BIographische Enzyklopaedie

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