Friedrich Specht
Illustration — Friedrich Specht by C. Kolb • Illustration — Great hornbill Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839 – 12 June 1909) was a German painter and natural history illustrator.
Friedrich Specht
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- Born
- 1839. · Lauffen am Neckar.
- Died
- 1909. · Stuttgart.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Württemberg.
- Fields
- painting and illustration.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Friedrich Specht by C. Kolb • Illustration — Great hornbill Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839 – 12 June 1909) was a German painter and natural history illustrator.
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Specht was born, in Lauffen am Neckar. He held his first exhibition at the Stuttgart Art Academy. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of Brehms Tierleben (1864–69) conceived by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907), Carl Vogt's Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild (1883–89) and Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History (1894–96). His brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the wildlife painter August Specht (1849–1923). He was responsible for the lion's head on Adolf Gnauth's memorial to the fallen warriors of Stuttgart. He died in Stuttgart.
Illustration of male and female greater kudus (Tragelaphus strepsiceros).
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1839
Friedrich Specht born at Lauffen am Neckar.
1909
Friedrich Specht died on 12 June 1909.
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Friedrich Specht is recorded with the occupation lithographer. Recorded as sculptor, painter, lithographer and illustrator.
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