Henrik Grönvold

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Henrik Grönvold (born September 6, 1858 in Præstø , Denmark ; † March 23, 1940 in Bedford , England ) was a Danish naturalist and artist who is best known for his bird drawings.

Live and act

Grönvold was the youngest of five children of Hans Peter Levin Grönvold and Wilhelmine Marie Cathrine Larsen. After finishing school in Præstø , he completed an apprenticeship as a model maker in Næstved . Here he met the pharmacist and ornithologist J. Baagøe, with whom he went hunting and doing natural history studies. Grönvold's ornithological records were in Baagøe's book Næstvedegnens Fugle in 1893 . Ornithologiske Iagttagelser og Notitser published. From 1880 Grönvold studied mechanical drawing at the Technical School in Copenhagen . He then worked as a technical draftsman for the artillery of the Royal Danish Army and in 1891 at the biological research station in Copenhagen, where he drew fish. In August 1892 he left Denmark and emigrated to England. In August 1893 he married the Swede Josephine Wilhelmine Maria Hillström in London, who died in 1935. Grönvold got a job at the Natural History Museum in London, where he worked as a taxidermist until 1895. In the same year he accompanied William Robert Ogilvie-Grant on a trip to the Portuguese Ilhas Selvagens . After this expedition, Grönvold worked in an unofficial capacity as a bird draftsman for the museum. He left London only once in the following decades, when he took part in the International Ornithological Congress in Berlin in 1910 .

Grönvold's illustrations have appeared largely in scientific journals such as the Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society , Novitates Zoologicae , The Ibis, and in the Avicultural Magazine . In these publications he drew panels for William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, George Albert Boulenger , Oldfield Thomas and Walter Rothschild, among others . Grönvold mainly drew birds and eggs as well as rare and newly discovered species from large parts of the world. He often made lithographs. His egg tables include some illustrations of giant alek eggs that he produced for Alfred Newton . In addition to his bird drawings, he illustrated oil paintings of monkeys for Walter Rothschild , which are in the collection of the Natural History Museum.

The books illustrated by Grönvold include The Birds of Africa (1896–1912) by George Ernest Shelley , Walter Lawry Buller's books on the birds of New Zealand ( A History of the Birds of New Zealand , Manual of the Birds of New Zealand and Supplement to the History of the Birds of New Zealand ), Extinct Birds (1907) by Walter Rothschild, Birds of Great Britain and Ireland (1907-1908) by Arthur Gardiner Butler , Birds of South South America (1912) by Wyndham Wentworth Brabourne , The British Warblers (1907–1914) by Henry Eliot Howard , Illustrations of the game birds and water fowl of South America (1915–1917) by Harry Kirke Swann , A Monograph of the Pheasants (1918–1922) by Charles William Beebe , The Birds of the Malay Peninsula (1929–1976) by Herbert Christopher Robinson , Les Oiseaux de L'Indochine française (1931) by Jean Théodore Delacour and Pierre Jabouille. For the twelve volumes of the work Birds of Australia (1910–1928) by Gregory Mathews , he made 600 hand-colored panels. His last work was 800 illustrations for the work The Birds of Tropical West Africa by David Armitage Bannerman , which was published from 1930 to 1951.

Dedication names

In 1912 Gregory Mathews named the South American subspecies of the salmon tern ( Gelochelidon nilotica groenvoldi ) in honor of Grönvold.

gallery

Gallery with illustrations by Henrik Grönvold (some extinct species and subspecies):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Henrik Gronvold (1858–1940) . Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  2. ^ A b c Roger F. Pasquier, John, Jr. Farrand: Masterpieces of Bird Art: 700 Years of Ornithological Illustration . Abbeville Press, 1991, ISBN 1-55859-134-6 , pp. 180-181.
  3. ↑ Jonathan Elphick: Birds - The Art of Ornithology 2004, ISBN 1-902686-39-X .
personal data
SURNAME Grönvold, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish naturalist and bird illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Præstø , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1940
Place of death Bedford , England