Wilhelm Kuhnert
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Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Kuhnert (born September 28, 1865 in Opole ; † February 11, 1926 in Flims / Graubünden ) was a German painter , author and illustrator who specialized in animal pictures .
Life
After breaking off a technical and commercial apprenticeship at the age of 17, Wilhelm Kuhnert was a scholarship holder of the Royal Academic College for Fine Arts from 1883 to 1887 . From his residence in Berlin , he made trips to the north, Egypt , East Africa and India to undertake landscape and animal studies. His favorite motif were the African lions.
His marriage to 18-year-old Emilie Caroline Wilhelmine Ottilie Alvine Herdikerhoff in 1894 resulted in a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1909 after Emilie had left Kuhnert while studying in Ceylon .
1901 as an illustrator by him together with the zoologist appeared Johann Wilhelm Haacke wrote animal life of the earth . In 1903 he worked for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck with designs for Stollwerck collector's pictures and designed, among other things, a series of pictures for scrapbooks No. 6. and No. 11. He also contributed numerous illustrations to Brehm's animal life (born in 1900).
In his second marriage, Kuhnert married Gerda von Jankowski in 1913, who died in 1925 on his 60th birthday.
Contrary to what was customary at the time, Kuhnert did not study and draw tropical animals in zoological gardens, but in the wild. He made pictures using the techniques of drawing, etching , watercolor and oil. Kuhnert is considered to be the most important German animal painter of his time. He was not only a painter and illustrator, but also a hunter and often undertook heavy exertions in order to kill and paint his motifs in the wild.
Kuhnert died on February 11, 1926 while on vacation in Switzerland . His grave is in Block Epiphany, Garden Block I, Garden Point 85/86 on the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin. His gravestone is decorated with a lion relief by Georg Roch based on a drawing made by Kuhnert himself.
Special exhibitions
- 2011: 4x Africa and back. Masterpieces by the animal painter and illustrator of Brehm's animal life Wilhelm Kuhnert , Knauf Museum Iphofen
- 2015: Der Löwen-Kuhnert: Africa's fauna in the drawings by Wilhelm Kuhnert , Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin . Catalog.
- 2018/19: King of the Animals - Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-7774-3128-4
Fonts (selection)
- In the land of my models . Leipzig 1918.
- My animals: Wilhelm Kuhnert's etchings . Berlin 1925.
- Complete catalog of the artist's original etchings . Berlin 1927.
literature
- Philipp Demandt Hrsg .: Der Löwen-Kuhnert: Africa's animal world in the drawings of Wilhelm Kuhnert . Nicolai, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89479-976-2 .
- Markus Mergenthaler (Ed.) Knauf Museum Iphofen: 4x Africa and back. Masterpieces by the animal painter and illustrator of Brehm's animal life Wilhelm Kuhnert , with contributions by Angelika Grettmann-Werner, Jochen Hallof. Dettelbach 2011 ISBN 978-3-89754-389-8
- Angelika Grettmann-Werner: Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926). Animal representation between science and art . Hamburg 1981 ISBN 3-922732-09-7
- Hansjörg Werner: Who was Wilhelm Kuhnert - would you like to get to know him? The great German animal painter , on demand, approx. 2005 ISBN 3-939119-09-1
- Hansjörg Werner: Wilhelm Kuhnert - His masterpieces , Bremen 2006, www.wilhelmkuhnert.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz : Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures , Reimer-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-496-01220-7 .
- ↑ The bite of the hyena can be heard in FAZ of November 9, 2015, page 14
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Kuhnert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Wilhelm Kuhnert in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Page made by the grandson of Wilhelm Kuhnert with some of his most interesting works
- Collection of animal images c-free on animal drawings 1 to 6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhnert, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuhnert, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl (full name); Kuhnert, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, author and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opole |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1926 |
| Place of death | Flims , Graubünden , Switzerland |