Heinrich Leutemann

Gottlob Heinrich Leutemann ( born October 8, 1824 in Großzschocher in Leipzig, † December 14, 1905 in Wittgens near Chemnitz ) was an animal painter and illustrator, author and illustrator, whose representations of zoo animals in the second half of the 19th century very were popular.

Life and work

Between 1838 and 1846 people man attended the Art Academy in Leipzig, where he studied especially in Bernhard von Neher. Under whose direction he worked on the frescoes in the Weimar castle and to the boxes to the glass windows of the abbey church in Stuttgart.

Since 1850 he was in Leipzig worked as an illustrator and writer for magazines, among others, the gazebo and the Illustrirte newspaper, and produced Posts for Munich Bilderbogen. Leutemann also illustrated numerous maps; to picture books for children over the country, people and animals he contributed drawings and color illustrations. As an artist, he devoted himself, however, mainly the designs of classical subjects, who enjoyed the audience of the period of great popularity. His main work includes the 36 steel engravings for the version of the Reynard the Fox JE Hartmann, published in Leipzig in 1855. People man made ​​since 1850 a series of animal illustrations for animal stories, fanfold formats and a zoological atlas.

Through his friendship with Carl Hagenbeck, which he should have been advised to start his animal parks, he made numerous drawings of Hagenbeck and ethnic shows that, in the print reproduced, dissemination found. Rare animals and their arrival at the Hagenbeck Zoo were documented in pictures of him and artistically designed. The animal drawings and prints have been preserved mainly in private collections.

Heinrich people man blind in 1895. A memorial exhibition took place in 1919 in Leipzig. People 's plants are located in Leipzig and Berlin in public collections.