RITTER Caspar
THE ART LOVER
Oil on panel: 46 x 37.5 cm / 18.1 x 14.8 ins
Signed middle left on the painting
Painter of genre scenes, figures, portraits, interiors and landscapes.
Kaspar Ritten was a pupil of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. From 1888 on, he was a teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In 1896, he was awarded a gold medal in Berlin.
Period:
Esslingen 1861 - Ermalingen 1923
German School
Exhibitions:
Düsseldorf - Geneva - Karlsruhe - Magdeburg - Mannheim - St Gall - Winterthur
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 11, p. 1111.