Kuhnert, Wilhelm (1865 Oppeln/Upper Silesia - 1926 Flims)

Lot 1827 limit € 280

Pencil/drawing board, "Leopard and Baboon", dynamic scene recorded immediately after the monkey was killed by the big cat, drawing heightened with white, signed lower left, titled at the top of the sheet, slightly brown-stained, behind glass in the passe-partout, image section approx. 14 x 24 cm, sheet size approx. 24 x 34 cm, important German animal painter, studied 1883-87 at the Art Academy in Berlin as a student of F. Bellermann and P. Meyerheim, study trips to Egypt, East Africa and India, production of numerous drawings and etchings after the Nature, popular book illustrator, works by the artist in the museums in Barmen, Elberfeld and Zwickau, among others