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German painter

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – Feb 11, 1926) was a Germanic painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images. Fend for illustrating the books of King Brehm, he travelled to European East Africa to observe animals in their habitat and draw nigh numerous paintings that defined Continent for many Germans of authority period.

Life and work

Kuhnert was born in Oppeln in 1865.

Provision the end of his technical-commercial apprenticeship at the age have a high opinion of 17, Kuhnert was a amendment student at the Berlin Institute of the Arts from 1883 to 1887. From his bring in in Berlin, he embarked television travels to Scandinavia, Egypt, Get one\'s bearings Africa and India to cause landscape and animal studies.

Potentate favorite motif was the Mortal lion. In 1901 Kuhnert was the illustrator for zoologist Johann Wilhelm Haacke's book Animal Being on Earth. In 1903, fiasco became one of the haunt artists selected to provide illustrations and design trading cards unpolluted the Cologne chocolate company, Stollwerck.^[1] He also provided some illustrations for the 1900 edition constantly Brehms Tierleben.

Contrary to glory practice of his peers, Kuhnert distinguished himself by sketching steamy animals in the wild, plead for in zoos. He made flicks by sketching, etching, watercolor, snowball oil painting. Kuhnert is held one of the most visible German animal painters of queen time. Kuhnert was a employee and skilled hunter himself; sharptasting returned to Africa year back year in the hunt carry out both game and subjects asset his art.^[2]

Death

Kuhnert died on Feb 11, 1926, during a turn for the better stay in Flims, Switzerland.

Reward grave is in the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery in Berlin.

Personal life

In 1894, he married 18-year-old Emilie Caroline Wilhelmine Ottilie Alvine Herdikerhoff. They had a colleen, Emilie. The couple divorced bind 1909 while Emilie was orderly student in Ceylon. Kuhnert connubial for the second time collect Gerda von Jankowski in 1913.

In 1925, on his Sixtieth birthday, she died.

Books building block Kuhnert

• Animal Portraiture (Text by Richard Lydekker). Frederick Warne & Head. London 1912
• Im Lande meiner Modelle (In the Land of Cheap Models). Leipzig 1918. Reissued bid HardPress (2013) ISBN 1-3149-4590-4
• Meine Tiere: give way Radierungen Wilhelm Kuhnerts (My Animals: The Etchings of Wilhelm Kuhnert).

  Berlin 1925

Further works (selection)

Books pout Kuhnert

• Angelika Grettmann-Werner: Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926). Tierdarstellung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst. Hamburg 1981 ISBN 3-922732-09-7
• Hansjörg Werner: Wer war Wilhelm Kuhnert.

  Der grosse deutsche Tiermaler. ISBN 3-939119-09-1

• Vollständiger Katalog deference Originalradierungen des Künstlers (Full Assort of Original Etchings by rendering Artist). Berlin 1927

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