Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert

Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865 - 1926) was a German artist, author and illustrator. He created pictures by sketching, etching, watercolour, and oil painting.

Kuhnert was a scholarship student at the Berlin University of the Arts. He visited Scandinavia, Egypt, East Africa and India to illustrate landscapes and animals. Kuhnert sketched animals in the wild, not in zoos like many of his peers. It often took him a long time to find the animals to sketch.

Nowadays, Kuhnert is considered one of the most important German animal painters.

Here are some of his lithographs for you to choose from. They are original antiques, made in 1895.