" The Forest Elf ", important German mythological painting

About the painter : Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (1857-1921), portrait and historical painter , studied 1880-1883 at the Academy in Dresden as pupil of L.Pohle and later in Karlsruhe under F.Keller. Lived short time in Paris 1890, where he visited Academy Julian and later worked and lived in Berlin, Bad Harzburg and Dresden. Created portraits of poets, musicians, composers, painters and noble personalities of the time. (For exemple Prince Albrecht of Brunswick, Prince Albrecht of Prussia, Prince and Prinsess Johann Georg of Saxony). This portraits were situated in the museums: Dresden,New City Hall and Dresden Painting Gallery ; City Museum of Braunschweig as well as in German and Russian noble estates. He executed also genre and historical paintings with reference to German seals and poems after Goethe, Freiligrath, 1901 Heyser won the competition for the execution of two murals at the Gewandhaus in Bautzen an award of the academical senate. In the last years of his life, he also brought some views of Island Fohr in Friesland. He has exhibited in Berlin, Chemnitz, Dresden, Hamburg and Munich.