oil/board 17x26cm in light frame,signed p.d.WR97,described on the back of the painting
Wilhelm Carl Räuber - German historical and genre painter. He began his artistic studies in 1869-70 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Königsberg. In 1872 he went to Munich and studied at the Academy there under Wilhelm Diez. In Munich he remained permanently. From 1879 he participated in numerous exhibitions; in 1880 he received a gold at an exhibition in Düsseldorf, and in 1883 he was awarded a second-class medal at an exhibition in Munich. He painted portraits, horse fairs, scenes from the Thirty Years' War, battles, knights, horsemen, and costumed hunting scenes, the so-called "zopfy."
