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Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839, in Lauffen am Neckar – 12 June 1909, in Stuttgart), was a German painter and natural history illustrator. He held his first exhibition at the :de:Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart Art Academy. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of ''Brehms Tierleben'' (1864–69) conceived by Alfred Edmund Brehm, ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (1890—1907), Carl Vogt's ''Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild'' (1883–89) and Richard Lydekker's ''Royal Natural History'' (1894–96). His brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the wildlife painter August Specht (1849–1923).
He was responsible for the :Commons:File:Fangelsbachfriedhof, Kriegerdenkmal 1874, 2.jpg, lion's head on 's memorial to the fallen warriors of Stuttgart.
Friedrich Specht
''The Natural History of Animals'' (online)
19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German sculptors German male sculptors German lithographers 1839 births 1909 deaths 20th-century German sculptors 19th-century German sculptors 20th-century German printmakers 20th-century lithographers {{Germany-painter-stub
Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839, in Lauffen am Neckar – 12 June 1909, in Stuttgart), was a German painter and natural history illustrator. He held his first exhibition at the :de:Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart Art Academy. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of ''Brehms Tierleben'' (1864–69) conceived by Alfred Edmund Brehm, ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (1890—1907), Carl Vogt's ''Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild'' (1883–89) and Richard Lydekker's ''Royal Natural History'' (1894–96). His brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the wildlife painter August Specht (1849–1923).
He was responsible for the :Commons:File:Fangelsbachfriedhof, Kriegerdenkmal 1874, 2.jpg, lion's head on 's memorial to the fallen warriors of Stuttgart.
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''The Natural History of Animals'' (online)
19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German sculptors German male sculptors German lithographers 1839 births 1909 deaths 20th-century German sculptors 19th-century German sculptors 20th-century German printmakers 20th-century lithographers {{Germany-painter-stub