Madlener was certainly a late-Romantic artist, but his themes, when not religious, tended to run to German folklore: the Lady of the Wood, the Vision of Hubertus (the stag with a cross between its antlers, as seen on the Jagermeister label).
He has also been called "der Maler der schwäbischen Weihnacht," the painter of Swabian Christmas, for his many Christmas-themed works.
Having grown up in Bavaria, I can verify how very much in tune with South German popular art Madlener's work was.
More here
http://www.memmingen.de/76.html for those who don't mind German
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is as German as all get-out,
as is
this:
but isn't this next one as
Tolkien as all get-out?
