Anton Braith (1836 - 1905)

Anton Braith

Anton Braith was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, landscape painter and animalist.

Anton Braith was active for a total of 53 years. His creative path consists of four periods. At first, the artist imitated Dutch painting, then specialized in portraits of animals surrounded by nature. Between 1874 and 1894 he produced his most outstanding works, characterized by vividness and drama. In his last years he focused on animal scenes in mountain meadows, gradually retiring from active artistic endeavors.

Braith was professor of painting at the Munich Academy of Painting and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Munich.