Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Framed 28” x 24”

Majewicz’s fox stalks its prey as it steps carefully over a fallen log.The unsuspecting birds peck at the ground in this woodland landscape.

Georg Majewicz was a Prussian-German genre painter best known for his detailed landscape and animal paintings of the Pomerania and East Prussia. He worked in a highly realist style, depicting animals captured in natural poses with a high level of technical accuracy set within a carefully rendered landscape. In addition to the deer, ducks, foxes, and other animals endemic to his native Europe, he would also sometimes paint African and Asian fauna such as elephants and tigers. Born in 1897 in Polkowice, Kingdom of Prussia, Majewicz studied art under the tutelage of Paul Selle in Wroclaw before moving to Berlin to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1923. Traveling throughout Europe to paint isolated environments, including the Alps and Carpathian Mountains, Majewicz spent a significant portion of time in the Polish town of Szczecin, where a number of his paintings remain in various local museums. Majewicz died in 1965 in Münchberg, Germany.