Christian Friedrich Mali (6 October 1832,

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(near

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) – 1 October 1906,

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) was a German painter and art professor. His older brother, Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali (1828–1865) was also a painter.

Life

Mali was the youngest of ten siblings, all of whom displayed artistic talent. After the sudden death of his father in 1833, Mali moved to

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with his mother and worked as a xylographer until 1858. He and his brother Johannes moved to Munich in 1860, where Christian became a lifelong friend of the animal painter Anton Braith. As the result of a trip to

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, he became interested in architectural painting, and produced several renderings of the buildings there. In 1865, after the death of his brother, Mali visited

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and from there went to Paris, where he encountered the works of the recently deceased animal painter

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and, perhaps under the influence of his friend Braith, decided to devote himself to animal painting. On 14 April 1905, he became an honorary citizen of

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. Upon his death the following year, he was buried there next to Braith in the Catholic Cemetery. He bequeathed much of his art, his studio and 60,000 Marks to the city of Biberach. The studio (and Braith's) form the core of the Braith-Mali Museum and are among the few fully preserved examples of 19th-century art studios.

Work

His earlier images place more emphasis on scenery and many are set in the

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area and the

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. His later work focuses almost entirely on dramatic depictions of animals; especially sheep.

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Künstlerkolonie Brannenburg
*Biography and appreciation of Christian Mali by

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