Karl Knabl (26 January 1850 – 15 June 1904) was a German landscape and

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

Biography

He was born in

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. Of his genre paintings, his motifs usually involved the lower classes of society.Knabl
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Band 11. Leipzig 1907, S. 163.

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).Hitz - Kozub
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References

* 1850 births 1904 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists People from the Kingdom of Bavaria German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Painters from Munich {{Germany-painter-stub