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Friedrich Specht (6 May 1839, Lauffen am Neckar – 12 June 1909, 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]

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

References

External links

• Media related to Friedrich Specht at Wikimedia Commons
• Literature by and about Friedrich Specht in the German National Library catalogue
• Friedrich Specht
• The Natural History of Animals (online)

На других языках

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[de] Friedrich Specht (Tiermaler)

Friedrich Specht (* 6. Mai 1839 in Lauffen am Neckar; † 12. Juni 1909 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Tiermaler, Bildhauer und Lithograf.

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- [en] Friedrich Specht

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[fr] Friedrich Specht

Friedrich Specht est un illustrateur naturaliste wurtembergeois, né le 6 mai 1839 à Lauffen am Neckar et mort le 12 juin 1909 à Stuttgart.

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