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Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger

Wilhelm Kuhnert (Oppeln 1865 - Flims/CH 1926)


Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger

Lot-No. 42


1917, oil/artist"s board, 33 x 72 cm, lo. le. sign. Wilh. Kuhnert, on the reverse titled "Schmale Kost" (Meagre Diet) a. inscribed "Sibirischer Tiger", sign. again as well as label with cat. rais. no. - Cat. rais.: Grettmann-Werner 2665. - German animal painter, studied with a scholarship at the Berlin academy from 1883 to 1887 under F.K. Bellermann a. P.F. Meyerheim, travelled often to Scandinavia but most of all to Africa a. India where he found his motifs a. turned out to be the most important exponent of his genre, his works were not only shown on the major European exhibitions but also reproduced in numerous editions. - Mus.: Hannover, Leiden, Enschede, Fort Worth. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.

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Wilhelm Kuhnert: Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger


Wilhelm Kuhnert (Oppeln 1865 - Flims/CH 1926)

Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger

Lot-No. 42

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1917, oil/artist"s board, 33 x 72 cm, lo. le. sign. Wilh. Kuhnert, on the reverse titled "Schmale Kost" (Meagre Diet) a. inscribed "Sibirischer Tiger", sign. again as well as label with cat. rais. no. - Cat. rais.: Grettmann-Werner 2665. - German animal painter, studied with a scholarship at the Berlin academy from 1883 to 1887 under F.K. Bellermann a. P.F. Meyerheim, travelled often to Scandinavia but most of all to Africa a. India where he found his motifs a. turned out to be the most important exponent of his genre, his works were not only shown on the major European exhibitions but also reproduced in numerous editions. - Mus.: Hannover, Leiden, Enschede, Fort Worth. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.

Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger
Meagre Diet - Siberian Tiger