Jörg Kühn
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Jörg Kühn was a Swiss
artist
, naturalist
and scientific illustrator who specialized in animal and bird paintings and drawings. He was also a children's book
illustrator
. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly scientific and exact nature.
He worked from 1961 to 1964 as a scientific illustrator at the Zoological Museum (Zoologische Museum der Universitat Zürich). His work which appeared in scientific publications including Pro Natura, Pro Juventute, World Wildlife Fund, and Hallwag-Verlag are exact and beautifully drawn. He was also skilled in graphics and taught the skill at the Zoological Museum in Zürich.
As well as scientific publications, he was sometimes employed as an illustrator of books including the children’s book Der Wald Und Seine Tierre (The Forest and its Animals) (1963) where his illustrations included monographs of forest animals.It has run to at least five editions since it was first published in 1963.
His colour plates include those of threatened wildlife that were commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund and contributions to the Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas (Guide to Birds of Central Europe).
Although Jörg Kühn's is chiefly remembered as a wildlife illustrator he was also commissioned to illustrate a number of medical textbooks including for the Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
Kühn died in Zürich in October 1964 from Hodgkin's lymphoma
diagnosed when he was eighteen years of age.
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
and scientific illustrator who specialized in animal and bird paintings and drawings. He was also a children's book
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly scientific and exact nature.
Biography
Kühn's reputation as a master of the exact portrayal of animals and birds is based on a professional career that lasted barely six years during which he worked prolifically. The legacy is regarded as very valuable containing in excess of one hundred colour plates and several hundred line drawings and innumerable field studies of the animals and birds he was illustrating. His depictive style has echoes of Louis Agassiz FuertesLouis Agassiz Fuertes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist.-Biography:Fuertes was the son of Estevan and Mary Stone Perry Fuertes....
He worked from 1961 to 1964 as a scientific illustrator at the Zoological Museum (Zoologische Museum der Universitat Zürich). His work which appeared in scientific publications including Pro Natura, Pro Juventute, World Wildlife Fund, and Hallwag-Verlag are exact and beautifully drawn. He was also skilled in graphics and taught the skill at the Zoological Museum in Zürich.
As well as scientific publications, he was sometimes employed as an illustrator of books including the children’s book Der Wald Und Seine Tierre (The Forest and its Animals) (1963) where his illustrations included monographs of forest animals.It has run to at least five editions since it was first published in 1963.
His colour plates include those of threatened wildlife that were commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund and contributions to the Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas (Guide to Birds of Central Europe).
Although Jörg Kühn's is chiefly remembered as a wildlife illustrator he was also commissioned to illustrate a number of medical textbooks including for the Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
Kühn died in Zürich in October 1964 from Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma, previously known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes...
diagnosed when he was eighteen years of age.