Tag: painting

Death’s-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos)

Oil paint on canvas, 2022

60 x 40 cm

Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) & kissing prochilodus (Semaprochilodus insignis)

Mixed media on panel, 2021

60 x 40 cm

Lambs on a meadow

Oil paint on canvas, 2021

30 x 24 cm

Eurasian Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) with cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis)

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)

Oil paint on paper, 2020

30 x 24 cm

Animals of Pleistocene Europe: cave lions (Panthera spelea), Ice Age musk ox (Ovibos pallantis) & woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)

Acrylic & oil paint on paper, 2020

42 x 29,5 cm

Commissioned work for the Project “Geolehrpfad Holzkirchen”

Monk’s-hood (Aconitum napellus)

Oil paint on canvas, 2020

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)
Acrylic & oil paint on canvas, 2019
40 x 30 cm

Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) & Bennett’s wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus fruticus)

The thylacine or Tasmanian tiger was the biggest carnivorous marsupial in historical times and was exterminated around 1900. The last individual died in 1936 at Hobart zoo.

Acrylic- & oil paint on canvas, 2019

40 x 30 cm

Allosaurus fragilis (Carnosauria), Late Jurassic, North America

Acrylic paint on paper, 2019

32 x 24 cm

Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

Oil paint on canvas, 2020

30 x 24 cm

Java Banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus)

Watercolour, 2020

32 x 24 cm

Kouprey (Bos sauveli)

The Kouprey is a wild cattle native to Southeast Asia, which was first discovered in 1937 by western science and was not seen since 1983. It is now thought to be probably extinct. Its large dewlap reaching nearly the ground is imposing.

Oil paint on panel, 2020

40 x 30 cm

Udurchukan-Formation with Olorotitan arharensis, nodosaurid und troodontids; Late Cretaceous, Russia

Acrylic- and oil paint on canvas, 2019

4th Price at the “11th International Scientific Dinosaur Illustration Contest 2019”

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Stoat (Mustela erminea) in winter fur

Oil paint on canvas, 2019

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra)

Oil paint on canvas, 2019

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Oil paint on panel, 2019

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)

Oil paint on panel, 2019

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

 

 

Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)

Oil paint on panel, 2019

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Cyprus in the Mesolithic: A man hunts a Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (Hippopotamus minor). This was a relative to the modern hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and characterized by a special foot-anatomy which made it walking on just two toes per foot and was an adaption to a more terresric way of life. This specialized hippo became extinct very fast after the arrival of humans on prehistoric Cyprus.

Acrylic paint on paper, 2019

50 x 40 cm

Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)

Acrylic and tempera on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2019, Heineanum Halberstadt

Domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo f. domestica) with poults. The surroundings are orientated at the Aztec culture.

Oil paint on paper, 2018/19

40 x 30 cm

MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2019, Heineanum Halberstadt

White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) at nest

Watercolour, 2018

24 x 16 cm

Northern long-eared owl (Asio otus)

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Moropus elatus (Chalicotheriidae), Miocene, North America

Oil paint on paper, 2019

42 x 29,5 cm

Medieval mining settlement. In the foreground there is a mine shaft with bobbin. Workers stamping the ore aside. Farther behind there are a forge, an assay furnace, an ore roasting furnace, the dwellings of the miners, a charcoal pit and a Waldhufendorf. The merchants in the foreground show that these villages were provided with aliment from outside and that they had no own food production.

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

Client: Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen (LfA)

Medieval keep near Ziegenrück. The building was constructed in the 15th century and is a relict of the former castle of Ziegenrück.

Watercolour, 2018

24 x 16 cm

Scheuchzer’s bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri), Asterales

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Rusty-leaved alpenrose (Rhododendron ferrugineum)

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Alpine landscape

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Mountain ridge

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Ötzi

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

The picture originated during the symposium “Kunst am Berg”, Panoramarestaurant BergDiamant Fiss/Austria.

Dipterus valenciennesi (Dipnoi) & Asteroxylon eberfeldense (Lycopodiaceae), Middle Devonian, Europe

Acrylic & oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Himba woman with child and gourd

Oil paint on cardboard, 2017

42 x 29,5 cm

Megatherium americanum (Folivora), a giant ground sloth depicted without fur because in theory with such a coat these animals would have been overheated in their relative warm environment. Nevertheless this reconstruction is speculative because there is no preserved skin of these animals.

Oil paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

A dodo chick (Raphus cucullatus) is begging for food. Probably the dodo has feed his chicks with crop milk as their relatives, the pigeons, do. The dodo died out in the 17th century and today it’s one of the best examples for an exterminated animal. But it is only one of many birds that are lost in Mauritius.

Acrylic paint on paper, 2018

32 x 24 cm

Sinoceratops zhuchengensis (Centrosaurinae), Late Cretaceous, China

Watercolour, 2017

70 x 50 cm

Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2018, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg

Kalmyk yurts, south-western Russia

Acrylic paint on paper, 2017/18

32 x 24 cm

Buddhistical monk

Acrylic paint on paper, 2017

48 x 36 cm

La Gardiole

Oil paint on paper, 2017

32 x 24 cm

The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.

Domestic goats (Capra aegagrus hircus)

Acrylic paint on paper, 2017

32 x 24 cm

Client: Hotel “Fernmühle” in Ziegenrück

Cow on meadow

Oil paint on paper, 2017

32 x 24 cm

Euphorbia obesa, a southern African species of spurge

Watercolor, 2017

48 x 34 cm

Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

Oil on canvas, 2016/17

69 x 59 cm

MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2017, Heineanum Halberstadt

Diving king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), Subantarctica

Oil on canvas, 2016

50 x 40 cm

Brook

Acrylic paint on canvas, 2016/17

40 x 40 cm

Riverbank of the Elbe across from Altkaditz

Acrylic paint on paper, 2016

32 x 24 cm

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

Northern Sea Nettle (Chrysaora melanaster): This jellyfish belongs to the class of Scyphozoa. Its tentacles can achieve 3 metres. It plunges 100 metres under sea level and feeds on large zooplankton, small fish and other jellyfish.

Oil paint on panel, 2015

80 x 64 cm

Art & Vielfalt – Impressionen aus der Tierwelt, 2016, Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg

Abschied von Marcus Burkhardt

Alles was schön ist, bleibt auch schön,
auch wenn es welkt.
Und unsere Liebe bleibt Liebe,
auch wenn wir sterben.
Maxim Gorki

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