- Jörg Kühn
Jörg Kühn (1940- 1964) was a Swiss artist and naturalist who specialized in animal and bird paintings and drawings and was also a children's book illustrator. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly scientific and exact nature.
Career
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 [ Birds of the World – Chapter on Great Bird Artists IPC magazines 1969 ] 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.
He worked from 1961 to 1965 as a semi-official artist at the Zoological Museum (Zoologisches Museum) in Zurich. His work which appeared in scientific publications are of a particularly exact nature. He was also skilled in graphics and taught the skill at the Zoological Museum in Zurich.
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) [ Jorg Khun & Vinzenz Ziswiler, "Der Wald Und Seine Tierre " Atlantis-Verlag (Zurich 1972) ISBN 3-7611-03093 ] .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) ["Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas". Volume 14, Passeriformes. Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim (Ed.). 1997. AULA-Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany] .
Kühn died in 1964 following four years of increasingly debilitating illness. [ Birds of the World – Chapter on Great Bird Artists IPC magazines 1969 ]
References
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