Carl Jutz

When the sun rose in Windschläg on September 22, 1838, the world welcomed Carl Jutz, who would later become known as a master of animal painting. Born into a modest family that produced nine children, Jutz's youth was marked by movement and change. He followed the family fate when they moved to Beuern while his father and brother made the journey to America. But fate had a different path in store for young Carl. His encounter with the Dutch painter Joseph August Knip led to a life-changing inclination toward art, especially animal painting. In 1861, Jutz ventured to Munich, a city then considered a thriving center of art. Despite the fact that he never attended an academy, he met artists such as Ludwig Willroider and Anton Braith , whose influence led him to devote himself entirely to animal painting. His travels eventually led him to Düsseldorf, where in 1868 he married Sybilla Karolina Adloff, daughter of the landscape painter Carl Adloff. His Düsseldorf home, equipped with a garden where he kept poultry, became the source of inspiration for some of his most famous works.