Friedrich Specht

Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839, in Lauffen am Neckar – 12 June 1909, in Stuttgart), was a German painter and natural history illustrator. He held his first exhibition at the Stuttgart Art Academy. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of Brehms Tierleben (1864–69) conceived by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907), Carl Vogt's Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild (1883–89) and Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History (1894–96). His brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the wildlife painter August Specht (1849–1923).[1]

Friedrich Specht by C. Kolb
Great hornbill
Greater horseshoe bat

He was responsible for the lion's head on Adolf Gnauth's memorial to the fallen warriors of Stuttgart.[2]

References
  1. "Specht, Friedrich 1839-1909 [WorldCat Identities]".
  2. "Boris Wilnitsky Fine Art - Homepage". www.wilnitsky.com.
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