Joseph Wolf
Joseph Wolf ( born January 22, 1820 at Mörz Munstermaifeld, † April 20, 1899 in London ) was a German - English animal painter.
Life
The farmer's son was ( probably the neighboring village at Munstermaifeld ) is formed in Koblenz 1836-1839 for lithographers after school in Metternich. Through the mediation of the explorer Eduard Rüppell he went in 1840 to Johann Jakob Kaup in the Grand-Ducal Naturalienkabinett in Darmstadt.
After 1848 Wolf lived in London, where he worked for the Zoological Society and anfertigte among others, individual lithographs for the English ornithologist John Gould.
Wolf is often referred to as the most important animal painter of the 19th century. One boasted to him, he understood it inimitably to awaken from dead specimens, the animals in his pictures back to life. An exhibition in Biohistoricum in Neuburg an der Donau recalled in 2000 to the Germany almost forgotten artist.
Joseph Wolf was named in 2002 in honor in his birthplace Mörz a new street after him.