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THE THYLACINE IN ART:
- NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION -
Image thirty-seven - Friedrich W. Kuhnert
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The thylacine as illustrated by German artist Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1901).

After his technical-commercial apprenticeship at the age of 17, Kuhnert was a scholarship student at the Royal Academic College of Fine Arts from 1883 to 1887.  From his home in Berlin, he embarked on travels to Scandinavia, Egypt, East Africa and India to make landscape and animal studies.  His favorite motif was the African lion, of which he painted many images.  In 1901, Kuhnert was the illustrator of zoologist Johann Wilhelm Haacke's book "Animal Life of the Earth".
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thylacine illustration - Friedrich W. Kuhnert
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pencil sketches of thylacine - Friedrich W. Kuhnert
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Kuhnert's pencil sketches of a thylacine.  Courtesy: Moeller Archives.
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