Christian Mali

After the sudden death of his father in 1833, Mali moved to Württemberg with his mother and worked as a xylographer until 1858.

He and his brother Johannes moved to Munich in 1860, where Christian became a lifelong friend of the animal painter Anton Braith.

[1] As the result of a trip to Verona, he became interested in architectural painting, and produced several renderings of the buildings there.

In 1865, after the death of his brother, Mali visited Düsseldorf and from there went to Paris, where he encountered the works of the recently deceased animal painter Constant Troyon and, perhaps under the influence of his friend Braith, decided to devote himself to animal painting.

His earlier images place more emphasis on scenery and many are set in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area and the Swabian Jura.