Tigers on the Prowl
Wilhelm Kuhnert (Oppeln 1865 - Flims/CH 1926)
Lot-No. 83
Proceeds : 123.800 €
Oil/canvas/cardboard, 93 x 160,5 cm, sign. lo. le. W. Kuhnert, slightly rest. - In the large-size painting at hand the artist shows himself at the height of his artistic ability. Posture and behaviour of the animals as well as the dynamics of their motions are seized with a mastery attesting to the fact that Kuhnert, unlike his contemporaries at the art academies, didn’t study his motifs in the zoo, but in the wild. Along with the suggestive effect of spatial depth the virtuos painting, creating the illusion of a haptic quality of the tiger skin, convey the feeling to the spectator to be witness of the hunt. - 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.
Wilhelm Kuhnert: Tigers on the Prowl
Wilhelm Kuhnert (Oppeln 1865 - Flims/CH 1926)
Tigers on the Prowl
Lot-No. 83
Proceeds : 123.800 €
Oil/canvas/cardboard, 93 x 160,5 cm, sign. lo. le. W. Kuhnert, slightly rest. - In the large-size painting at hand the artist shows himself at the height of his artistic ability. Posture and behaviour of the animals as well as the dynamics of their motions are seized with a mastery attesting to the fact that Kuhnert, unlike his contemporaries at the art academies, didn’t study his motifs in the zoo, but in the wild. Along with the suggestive effect of spatial depth the virtuos painting, creating the illusion of a haptic quality of the tiger skin, convey the feeling to the spectator to be witness of the hunt. - 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.