Virtual Exhibition: Carl Jutz The Elder — With a love from the countryside

The 19th-century German painter Carl Jutz The Elder painted some brilliant artworks during his career dedicated to life in the German countryside.

Influenced by the great German painters from Düsseldorf School, Jutz worked on the artworks with impressive precision and accuracy, creating almost photographic depictions of rural scenery. In particular, Jutz was very enthusiastic about the depictions of various birds — hens, roosters, ducks, and peacocks.

Other animals and rural scenes were rarely featured in his artworks. Art critics viewed his depictions of animals as kind of a metaphors of society, presenting an anthropomorphic mirror of human behavior. However, Jutz’s works never featured any depictions of humans, and rarely include some attributes of rural life, such a pitchfork, axe or overturned basket somewhere in the background.

Historium presents you a colorful virtual exhibition with some of the most impressive works of the great and underrated German master.

The Duck Family (1878)

Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 cm 

The Disobedient Children (1886)

Oil on canvas, 38 x 48 cm

The Duck Family At The Pond (1863)

Oil on canvas, 30.1 x 37 cm

Chicken & Ducks Nearby The Pond (1895)

Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 23 cm

Poultry In The Barn (1894)

Oil on canvas, 40 x 62 cm

In The Stream

Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 cm

Ducks Nearby The Pond (1916)

Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 cm

A Dog With The Poultry (1872)

Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 62.5 cm

A Poultry Courtyard (1901)

Oil on canvas, 38.2 x 48.2 cm

The Poultry (1891)

Oil on canvas, 34 x 48 cm

A Goat Kid And Hen (1868)

Oil on canvas, 52 x 72.5 cm

A Rooster With Hens

Oil on canvas, 43 x 58 cm

A Rural Scene With Birds (1897)

Oil on canvas, 34 x 48 cm

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