Jagende Löwin (Hunting Lioness)

Visual Description

A lioness, body fully stretched, launches into a leap through dry, golden savanna grass. In the background lie gentle ranges of hills, acacias and a distant herd beneath a violet-tinted sky. Dust and blades of grass swirl around her paws, her gaze fixed on the target.

Artistic Interpretation

The picture captures the split second in which stillness turns into movement. The lioness embodies determination and focus; Graf shows strength not as violence but as perfect bodily control.

Art-Historical Context

The work stands in the tradition of great wildlife art, which shows the animal in its habitat and in characteristic movement. Precise anatomical observation and the atmospheric expanse of the landscape combine naturalist precision with painterly mood.

Exclusivity

A 70 × 120 cm landscape format whose width takes up the dynamism of the leap. Fur texture, musculature and the fine blades of grass are painted in oil with great care; the restrained color makes the movement all the more powerful.

Collector Value

A powerful work for spaces with breadth: reception areas, studies, law firms and country houses. Together with “Jagender Gepard,” it forms an impressive pair about speed and concentration.

More About the Artist

Erich Graf is one of Germany’s most distinguished wildlife and landscape painters and, for more than four decades, has created richly detailed, atmospheric paintings of animals, nature and cultural scenes. Internationally exhibited and collected—named among the “world’s best animal painters” by Wildlife Art Magazine in 2025—his works are sought after as far as royal households.

Condition Report

Original from the artist’s studio, signed. A detailed condition report with close-up photos is available on request before purchase.