Size: 55cm by 40cm

Oil on Linen

A Bauernschmaus is an Austrian dish containing pork loin chops, bacon, and sausages cooked in beer with sauerkraut, grated raw potato, and seasoning. In this painting Alexander has chosen to depict fictional folk Bavarian characters called wolpertinger's feasting upon this dish. In German folklore, a wolpertinger (also called wolperdinger or woiperdinger) is an animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

It has a body comprising various animal parts generally wings, antlers, tails and fangs, all attached to the body of a small mammal. The most widespread description portrays the Wolpertinger as having the head of a rabbit, the body of a squirrel, the antlers of a deer, and the wings and occasionally the legs of a pheasant. Stuffed "wolpertingers", composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals' "native regions". The Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum in Munich, Germany.