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Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – February 11, 1926) was a German painting, painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in Animal painting, animal images. After illustrating the books of Alfred Brehm, he travelled to German East Africa to observe animals in their habitat and produced numerous paintings that defined Africa for many Germans of the period.
Richard Lydekker's ''The Royal Natural History'', with 72 colour plates and 1600 engravings by Kuhnert & othersDiese Site ist vom Enkel Wilhelm Kuhnerts erstellt worden und zeigt einige seiner interessantesten Arbeiten
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhnert, Wilhelm 1865 births 1926 deaths People from Opole People from the Province of Silesia Animal artists German illustrators 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male writers
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – February 11, 1926) was a German painting, painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in Animal painting, animal images. After illustrating the books of Alfred Brehm, he travelled to German East Africa to observe animals in their habitat and produced numerous paintings that defined Africa for many Germans of the period.
Life and work
Kuhnert was born in Opole, Oppeln in 1865. After the end of his technical-commercial apprenticeship at the age of 17, Kuhnert was a scholarship student at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1883 to 1887. From his home in Berlin, he embarked on travels to Scandinavia, Egypt, East Africa and India to make landscape and animal studies. His favorite motif was the African lion. In 1901 Kuhnert was the illustrator for zoologist Wilhelm Haacke, Johann Wilhelm Haacke's book ''Animal Life on Earth''. In 1903, he became one of the many artists selected to provide illustrations and design trading cards for the Cologne chocolate company, Stollwerck. He also provided some illustrations for the 1900 edition of Brehms Tierleben. Contrary to the practice of his peers, Kuhnert distinguished himself by sketching tropical animals in the wild, not in zoos. He made pictures by sketch (drawing), sketching, etching, watercolor, and oil painting. Kuhnert is considered one of the most important German animal painters of his time. Kuhnert was a keen and skilled hunter himself; he returned to Africa year after year in the hunt for both game and subjects for his art.Personal life
In 1894, he married 18-year-old Emilie Caroline Wilhelmine Ottilie Alvine Herdikerhoff. They had a daughter, Emilie. The couple divorced in 1909 while Emilie was a student in Sri Lanka, Ceylon. Kuhnert married for the second time to Gerda Jankowski in 1913. In 1925, on his 60th birthday, she died. Kuhnert died on February 11, 1926 during a recovery stay in Flims, Switzerland. His grave is in the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf in Berlin.Books by Kuhnert
* ''Animal Portraiture'' (Text by Richard Lydekker). Frederick Warne & Co. London 1912 * ''iarchive:imlandemeinermod00kuhnuoft, Im Lande meiner Modelle'' (In the Land of My Models). Leipzig 1918. Reissued by HardPress (2013) * ''Meine Tiere: die Radierungen Wilhelm Kuhnerts'' (My Animals: The Etchings of Wilhelm Kuhnert). Berlin 1925Books about Kuhnert
* Angelika Grettmann-Werner: ''Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926). Tierdarstellung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst''. Hamburg 1981 * Hansjörg Werner: ''Wer war Wilhelm Kuhnert. Der grosse deutsche Tiermaler''. *''Vollständiger Katalog der Originalradierungen des Künstlers'' (Full Catalog of Original Etchings by the Artist). Berlin 1927References
External links
Richard Lydekker's ''The Royal Natural History'', with 72 colour plates and 1600 engravings by Kuhnert & others
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhnert, Wilhelm 1865 births 1926 deaths People from Opole People from the Province of Silesia Animal artists German illustrators 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male writers