Mushroom Art Registry:
Germanic Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

Angermeyer, Johann Adalbert. German/Czech. 1674-1740

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Title: Still life with lizard and tree frog. 1736
Medium: Oil on tin
Location: Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany. (Inventory # G 269)
Mushroom description: Leccimum aurantiacum and Suillus luteus under a hazel bush
Reference: Das Stilleben und sein Gegenstand. Exhibition Catalog. Dresden. 1983. Mentioned in Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
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Title: Still life with roses, snowballs, tulips, grapes and fungi with bullfinches and other birds in an extensive landscape
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Two mushrooms in foreground, perhaps Hydnum repandum
Found in: Gabrius website

Byss, Johan Rudolf. Swiss. Chur,1660-1738

Title: Birds in Nature (Vögel in der Natur) I and II. 1704
Medium: Oil
Location: National Gallery, Prague
Mushroom description: Armillaria, Paxillus, Pleurotus, various russulas and cf. Agaricus in a forest with birds
Reference: mentioned by C. Kosina. 1988.

Dallinger, Franz Theodor. Austrian. 1710-1771

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Title: Still life with vegetables and asparagus (Stilleben mit Gemüse und Spargel) 1745
Location: National Gallery, Prague
Mushroom description: Russula, Lactarius and other agarics in foreground
Reference: Skubla. Tajonmé Huby. Bratislava. 1989.
— B —
Title: Still life with vegetables and mushrooms (Stilleben mit Gemüse und Pilzen) 1745
Location: National Gallery, Prague
Mushroom description: Russula species, Lactarius deliciosus and other agarics in foreground
Reference: Skubla. Tajonmé Huby. Bratislava. 1989.

Ehret, Georg Dyonisius. German. 1710-1770

Falch, Johann. German. 18th century

Title: Forest floor still lifes: a snake attacking a frog with a cabbage white, a snail, thistles and forget-me-nots on a rocky bank
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Two large red mushrooms

Haelszel, Johann Baptist. German. 17th-18th centuries?

Title: Goldfinches feeding a nest, with lizards on a forest floor; and a snake attacking a bird's nest of eggs, with mushrooms and wild strawberries
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: A single gilled mushroom. Possibly an Agaricus or Cortinarius
Reference: Gabrius website

Hamilton, Karl Wilhelm De. German. 1668-1754

Note: A large number of a still lifes containing mushrooms have been attributed to K. W. Hamilton. Please go to the complete listing under Hamilton. Here we include a few samples of his work
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Title: Still life with flowers, snake, lizard, frog, snail, dragonfly, butterfly and mushrooms
Location: Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mushroom description: A group of colored agarics and chanterelles
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Title: Plants with amphibians and insects (Pflanzen mit Anphibien und Insekten)
Medium: Oil on canvas, 39.8 x 28.4 cm.
Location: State Gallery, Stuttgart
Mushroom description: Boletus cf edulis s.l. (B. aestivalis) on right
Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. 1999. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
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Title: Still life of hunt with fox and birds (Jagtstilleben mit Fuchs und Vögeln) 1751
Location: State Museum, Schwerin, Germany
Mushroom description: Four boletes and agarics in right foreground
Note: Seen by Hanns Kreisel in Special Exhibit, Güstrow, 1995
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Hamilton, K. W. (Attributed to)
Title: Hunt scene with falcon and heron
Location: Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
Mushroom description: Lactarius volemus and Cantharellus cibarius
Note: Seen by Hanns Kreisel in 1997

Hoffmann, Samuel. Swiss. 1595-1649

Title: Dead hares, a pheasant, funghi, a melon, pomegranates, asparagus, a basket of grapes and a salver with pewter plates an a shelf
Location: Unknown
Mushroom identification: Four Amanita caesarea
Reference: Gabrius website

Kauw, Albecht. Swiss, 1616-1681

Title: Large Still Life With Sitting Woman
Medium: Oil on canvas, 121 x 180 cm.
Location: Unknown. Auctioned by Gallerie Koller, Zurich, 2005
Mushroom description: Two parasol mushrooms (Macrolepiota procera), one showing a curious caligate (booted) stipe, tapering downward

Libalt, Gottfried. German (active in Hamburg). 1610-1673

Mignon, Abraham. German. Frankfurt 1640-Wetzlar 1679

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Title: Flowers, animals and insects
Medium: Oil
Location: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Artes de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Mushroom description: Several Agaricus species
Reference: Haak. Die Goldene Zeit.... Cologne. 1984. S. Killermann, 1927.
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Shore scene with flowers (Uferlandschaft mit Blumen)
Medium: Oil
Location: Staatsgalerie, Bamberg, Germany
Mushroom description: Coprinus species and other capped mushrooms on the ground in foreground of a wood scene
Reference: Goldberg, Gisela. an der Hieden, Rudiger. Staatsgalerie Bamberg. Munich/Zurich. 1986.
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Title: Flower, birds, insects and reptiles (Fleurs, oiseaux, insectes et reptiles)
Location: Louvre
Mushroom description: A few indistinct agarics in foreground
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Title: Finch nest, fish, reptiles and dead squirrel in an environment of plants and trees (Le nid de pinson, poissons, reptiles et ecureuil mort au milieu de plantes et des arbres)
Location: Louvre
Mushroom description: Several indistinct agarics in foreground
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Title: Forest floor still life with grapes, plums, rosehips, blackberries and ears of corn in a basket, with peaches, melons, etc.
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Several indistinct agarics on left foreground
Reference: Gabrius website

Purgau, Franz Michael Siegmund Von, the Elder. Austrian? Bécs 1677/78-1754

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Title: Thistle shrub with butterflies and a frog (Eine Distelstaude mit Schmetterlinge un einem Frosch)
Location: Lower Belvedere, Vienna
Mushroom description: Two capped mushrooms in foreground
Reference: Gabrius website
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Title: Wild flowers, mushrooms, strawberries, a snail, a lizard and a butterfly
Location: Lower Belvedere, Vienna
Mushroom description: Two large reddish gilled mushrooms with cracked caps (russulas?)
Reference: Gabrius website

Tamm, Franz Werner (called Monsù or Daprait). German. Hamburg 1658-Vienna 1724.

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Title: Still life
Location: Private collection
Mushroom description: Group, possibly of boletes and Amanita caesarea
Reference: Wasson, G. and V. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. NY: Pantheon Books. 1957.
— B —
Title: Still life with Flowers (Stilleben mit Blumen)
Medium: Oil
Location: Unteres Belvedere, Vienna
Mushroom description: A Russula together with fruits and dead birds
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Title: Still life, vase of flowers with mushrooms
Medium: Oil on canvas, 244 x 167 cm.
Location: Galleria Pallavicini, Rome
Mushroom description: Group of agarics
Reference: Nature Morte in Italia. Electra Publ. 1989.
Note: Seen by B. Oberwinkler
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Title: Still life with roses, guelder roses, tulips, grapes, mushrooms and a bird in a park
Location: Unknown
Mushroom description: Indistinct mushrooms
Reference: Gabrius website