“In the private collections that were established on the Rhine in the 1970s and 1980s, a Jutz was as indispensable as a Kröner or an Achenbach” (Kölnische Zeitung, 5 September 1916), as a feature writer for the Kölnische Zeitung noted in 1916. Carl Jutz began his training as a painter with a Dutch animal painter (A. Knip) before joining the Munich circle of artists around Anton Braith and Christian Mali in 1861. In Bavaria, Carl Jutz spent several years in small artists’ colonies on Lake Chiemsee together with many other animal and landscape painters. In 1867, he moved to Düsseldorf and perfected his eye for the accurate depiction of animals, which had neither precursors nor imitators of comparable artistic calibre in Düsseldorf. Jutz specialised primarily in poultry painting, which remained his main theme until the end of his life. English and American collectors acquired many of his major works, while German museums in Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Breslau and Königsberg secured paintings from his oeuvre during the painter’s lifetime.