Walter Linsenmaier
Walter Linsenmaier (born August 18, 1917 in Stuttgart ; † October 31, 2000 in Ebikon ) was a Swiss painter and entomologist .
Life
Linsenmaier was born in Stuttgart in 1917, but his family moved to Switzerland as early as 1918. After graduating from school and doing an apprenticeship as a plasterer there, he obtained a diploma as a drawing teacher in Lucerne . From 1950 he worked as a full-time artist.
Walter Linsenmaier specialized in nature drawings, in particular depictions of insects, for book and magazine illustrations, including Ernst Sutter's publication Bird of Paradise and Hummingbirds: Pictures from the Life of Tropical Birds from 1953. His works, created with colored pencils, are characterized by their fidelity to nature and high level of detail.
In 1952, when he lived in Ebikon near Lucerne, he and his father set up the “Animal World Panorama”, a zoological museum that shows prepared animals in representations of their natural habitats.
Services
Walter Linsenmaier was stimulated into his scientific work when he was once commissioned to draw a gold wasp . Since then he has dealt intensively with this group of insects. In 1951 he published his first major work in this field. With numerous other fundamental works, he became one of the most important golden wasp experts of the 20th century, he described about 600 new species and subspecies and compiled a collection of an estimated 250,000 insects, including around 60,000 golden wasps from around the world.
In 1982, in recognition of his scientific and artistic achievements, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences at the University of Bern , in 1985 the Central Swiss Culture Prize and in 1992 the Ernst Jünger Prize for Entomology from the State of Baden-Württemberg .
Walter Linsenmaier died in 2000 at the age of 83. His collection was taken over by the Lucerne Nature Museum .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Linsenmaier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Linsenmaier picture studio
- Between dream and reality
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linsenmaier, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 2000 |
| Place of death | Ebikon |