The Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert

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To many art historians, he was the greatest animal painter -ever. Though sUght of build, he was courageous and intrepid in everything he did. As a young artist in his native Germany, he dared to be different from his contemporaries; instead of sketching animals behind bars at local zoos, he sailed off to distant Africa where he would ultimately devote several years to studying and painting wild creatures under the sweltering tropical sun.
Bom in 1865, Wilhelm Kuhnert traveled to many lands to paint wildlife, but his best works mirror his experiences from three long safaris on the Dark Continent. Over his long and immensely productive career, he completed more than five thousand paintings, including many canvases of dangerous game, often working so close to his wild subjects that he put himself at grave risk.
Today, nearly seventy years since his death. The Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert stands as the first book ever published in EngUsh to chronicle the life and work of the... Tovább

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'V'h'
To many art historians, he was the greatest animal painter -ever. Though sUght of build, he was courageous and intrepid in everything he did. As a young artist in his native Germany, he dared to be different from his contemporaries; instead of sketching animals behind bars at local zoos, he sailed off to distant Africa where he would ultimately devote several years to studying and painting wild creatures under the sweltering tropical sun.
Bom in 1865, Wilhelm Kuhnert traveled to many lands to paint wildlife, but his best works mirror his experiences from three long safaris on the Dark Continent. Over his long and immensely productive career, he completed more than five thousand paintings, including many canvases of dangerous game, often working so close to his wild subjects that he put himself at grave risk.
Today, nearly seventy years since his death. The Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert stands as the first book ever published in EngUsh to chronicle the life and work of the great German artist. And while it features over forty color plates of his greatest paintings, the heart of this book is its chapter on drypoints and etchings - the first time that Kuhnert's entire output of engravings has
been assembled in one publication. Now, . discover the world's wildlife through the keen eyes and skilled hands of this little known, yet singularly gifted artist.

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