Ernst Hugo Von Stenglin (1862 – 1914) –a Family Of Bulldogs

Ernst Hugo Von Stenglin (1862 – 1914) – Bulldog

Dimensions: 68 cm x 55 cm
Oil on cardboard

Description
A mother Bulldog, with her two puppies, poses in front of E.H. von Stenglin for the family portrait.

Ernst Hugo von Stenglin (1862 – 1914)
Son of Field Marshal A. von Stenglin (1822–1900) and his wife Clotilde (1832–1912) he came from the von Stenglin lineage from the Mecklenburg region, north of Berlin.

Ernst Hugo von Stenglin began his career as an officer in the Prussian army, in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jaeger Battalion No. 14

After his active time he studied at the Academy in Munich. In Berlin, where he later moved, he was appreciated both as a portraitist and as a painter of animals, able to observe them with the eye of the artist and depicted them with the fidelity characteristic of his painting.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Stenglin entered the field as a captain of the Landwehr in the reserve Jaeger battalion No. 15 in Potsdam and was killed in an assault near Dixmuide.