Summary of all fossil Alcelaphini-genera with selected species
Coloured pencil drawings, digitally composed; 2018
The reconstructions were made with kindly support by paleontologist Dr. Faysal Bibi from the Museum for Natural History Berlin.
Tag: Africa
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Menelikia lyrocera (Bovidae), Pliocene – Pleistocene, East Africa
This medium-sized antelope had horns with transverse ridges and was possibly similar to today’s Nile lechwe / Mrs Gray’s lechwe (Kobus megaceros) in its ecology.
Pencil, 2019
29,5 x 21 cm
The picture was drawn from two exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in Paris.
Awashia suwai (Bovidae), Late Pliocene, Ethiopia
A. suwai was found at the Matabaietu formation which is located at the eponymous river Awash in Ethiopia. It lived there about 2,5 million years ago together with hominids like Australopithecus garhi and maybe Paranthropus aethiopicus.
Coloured pencil, 2018
30 x 24 cm
Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas)
Pencil, 2018
21 x 15 cm
The picture was drawn from a zoological specimen at the natural history museum in Waldenburg.
Lelwel Hartebeest (Alcelaphus lelwel), signposted at the museum as Lichtenstein’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus lichtensteinii), which is impossible because of the horn shape.
Pencil, 2018
29,5 x 21 cm
The picture was drawn from a zoological specimen at the natural history museum in Waldenburg.
Sanga cattle
Ink, 2018
29,5 x 21 cm
Sketch of a common ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Pencil, 2013
Quagga (Equus quagga quagga): An exterminated South African subspecies of plains zebra. The last one died in the Artis-Zoo in Amsterdam in 1883.
Oil on canvas, 2015/16
70 x 50 cm
Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2016, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg
Flamingos in mist (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Pencil, 2014/15
42 x 29,5 cm