Karl Knabl

Karl Knabl (1850-1904) was a German landscape and genre painter.

Biography

He was born in Munich, the son of sculptor Joseph Knabl. He first practiced sculpture under his father's instruction, but became a genre painter as a pupil of Karl Theodor von Piloty.

Works

His effective and frequently humorous genre scenes include:

• The Robbed Miser (German: Der bestohlene Geizhals, 1874)
• An Undiscovered Genius (1879)
• Poachers (1891)

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Knabl, Joseph". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.