Flat-footed Thief By Gustav Rienäcker (german, 1861 - 1935)

A charming and humorous genre work with a dachshund was executed by the good Munich painter and art teacher Gustav Rienäcker (1861 Blankenburg - 1935 Munich).
The artist studied at the Academy of Art in Duesseldorf, then at artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. At the end of the 19th century, he moved to Munich, where he was recognized as a portrait painter, worked as a professor at the Academy of Art and taught painting to many future famous painters. He was a court portraitist, executed portraits of German nobility (incl. Luise Victoria of Prussia and Ernst August, Herzof von Braunschweig and Luneburg), also landscape sketches, still natures and dog paintings. He exhibited several times at the Glaspalast in Munich (1904-1911 and 1929). several of his works are part of official collections and museums.

Literature: E. Benezit - "Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and dear ones" (in French), Paris, 1999. "General Artist's Lexicon" by Thieme/Becker, Leipzig, 1999; Bellier-Auvray, Dict.gen.
Inscription: signed lower right, on the back of the board - the rest of an exhibition label with the number i ventory.
Technique: oil on board. Antique gold plated frame.
Measurements: unframed 56.5 x 76 cm, framed 69 x 88 cm.
Condition: in good condition.