Wilhelm Kuhnert was born on 28.08.1865 in Oppeln, Silesia, as the son of a civil servant. At this time the industrial revolution in Germany took up strongly at speed and Wilhelm Kuhnert should complete a commercial apprenticeship after the will of the father first. Driven by completely different interests, Kuhnert broke off the apprenticeship and went already at the age of 16 years to Berlin, where he held himself so to speak as a hunger artist over water. With casual work such as portraits and commercial art he managed to just about make it.
With great talent, but without any artistic training, he took part in a competition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was one of the winners, which enabled him to study there. After Kuhnert dedicated himself to painting animals in the Berlin Zoo, where he also wrote his first publications, he was 26 years old when he was again seized by a thirst for adventure and his studies in the zoo were no longer enough. An expedition over Egypt and East Africa enabled the adventurous animal painter and zoologist to draw and paint the animal world there in the wild. It is therefore not surprising that he is known today as the "Lion-Kuhnert". Shortly afterwards Kuhnert's second big expedition took place, which on the one hand again led to East Africa, but also via India to Ceylon. And some years later he accompanied King Friedrich August of Saxony on his hunting trip to Sudan. Wilhelm Kuhnert had his last studio in the Kurfürstenstraße 120 in the west of Berlin. Before that Richard Friese (1854-1918) had worked there. Among Frieze's preferred motifs were the big game of northern Europe and the animal world in the northern Arctic Ocean. Together Kuhnert and Friese were the founders and most dazzling representatives of realistic animal painting in Germany.
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Kuhnert had to look for new fields of work after the Second World War due to the new political framework, because Deutsch-Ostafrika no longer offered him the opportunity to travel. The love for animal painting remained however. On a Sweden journey he dedicated himself with passion to some moose studies. While his studio produced a large number of oil paintings, orders for illustrations for popular scientific and zoological works declined.
Wilhelm Kuhnert participated up to his death around 1926 in the big Berlin art exhibition as well as in many exhibitions in different cities.
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.jpg "African Elephant, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "A Pride of Lions on the Prowl by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Lion, plate from \"Brehms Tierleben: Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs\", vol.1, p.453, published by Bibliographisches Institut by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Gazelles, plate from \"Brehms Tierleben: Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs\", vol. 3, p. 9, published by Bibliographisches Institut by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Fox, plate from Brehms Tierleben by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Great Ant Eater, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Weaver Birds, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Crested Screamer, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Red Kangaroo, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Dungola Genet, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Manchurian Tiger, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Great Bird of Paradise, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Single Wattled Cassowary, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Black Swan, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Orangutan by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Manchurian Crane by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Hanuman Monkey, from Wildlife of the World published by Frederick Warne & Co by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Guereza, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Common Seal by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Indian Humped Cattle, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Blue and Yellow Macaw by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Lanceolated Jay, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Green Monkey, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "River Hog, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Tiger, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Razorbill by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Striped Hyena and Jackal by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Indian Rhinoceros, from Wildlife of the World published by Frederick Warne & Co, c.1900 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Gazelle by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Prehistoric Animals: A Laelaps Attacking a Brontosaurus by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Llama by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Pied Hornbill by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Nile Crocodile, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Leopard, from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Giant Salamander by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "A Kaffir Buffalo in Prairie Grass by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "American Bison by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Baboon, Plate from Brehms Tierleben: Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs, vol.1, p.166, Published by Bibliographisches Institut, 1890 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Springbok, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Hippopotamus, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Black Buck, from Wildlife of the World published by Frederick Warne & Co, c.1900 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Elk or Moose by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Glutton or Wolverine by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Sable Antelope, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Marabou and Jabiru, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Lion and Lioness, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "St. Paul Squirrel, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Giant Tortoises, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Indian Python by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Bateleur Eagle, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Red Coati by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Californian Sea Lion by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Pair of Lions in the Steppe by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "A Lion and a Lioness in the Savannah by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Rock Penguin, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "A Resting Lion by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Lion Heading to the River by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Lions at Dusk by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Fennec and Jerboa, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Duckbill, illustration from Wildlife of the World, c.1910 by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Cockroaches, Adult and Immature by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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.jpg "Chimpanzee, illustration from Wildlife of the World by Wilhelm Kuhnert")
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