John K. Grammel
(active ca. 1830)
Farmers and horses at the village well
oil painting on wood
signed lower right and dated
dimensions 32,5 x 36,5 cm, dimensions with frame (slightly damaged) 44,5 x 48,5 cm
John K. Grammel (active c. 1830) genre painter in Munich and Nuremberg. Student of Johann Conrad Ochlig in Nuremberg. The preferred subjects of the artist were horses, some with carts. On shows Grammel was represented only by oil paintings, watercolors are scattered known. At times, in Munich, but mainly in Nuremberg. Member of the Nuremberg Art Association. The annual report of the Albrecht-Dürer-club of 1839-40, he was known to have died. (Source: Encyclopedia of Nuremberg artists, edited by M. Greaves.)