Death’s-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos)
Oil paint on canvas, 2022
60 x 40 cm
Category: wildlife art
Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) & kissing prochilodus (Semaprochilodus insignis)
Mixed media on panel, 2021
60 x 40 cm
Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)
Acrylic & oil paint on canvas, 2020
40 x 30 cm
Mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
Pencil, 2020
29,5 x 21 cm
Southern blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
Pencil, 2021
30 x 24 cm
Zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra)
Pencil, 2020
29,5 x 21 cm
Slender horned gazelle (Gazella leptoceros)
Mixed media, 2020
24 x 17 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
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
Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
Oil paint on canvas, 2020
30 x 24 cm
Wild Yak (Bos mutus)
Coloured pencil, 2020
29,5 x 21 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
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.
Water rail (Rallus aquaticus) with chick
Oil paint on paper, 2018
32 x 24 cm
MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2019, Heineanum Halberstadt
Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)
Acrylic and tempera on paper, 2018
32 x 24 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
Black swan (Cygnus atratus)
Watercolour, 2018
24 x 16 cm
Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
Watercolour, 2018
24 x 16 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.
Ringed waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
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.
Northern pike (Esox lucius)
Watercolor, 2018
32 x 24 cm
The picture was painted from a living specimen at the Thuringian centre for wildlife conservation in Ranis.
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
Sketches of a passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), drawn from a zoological specimen at the Natural History Museum Erfurt. The last one of this bird species died in 1914. It was native in North America.
Pencil, 2018
21 x 15 cm
Resting mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)
Pencil & ink, 2018
21 x 15 cm
Marbled rock crab (Pachygrapsus marmoratus)
Watercolour, 2017
32 x 24 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Tower shell (Turritella sp.)
Watercolour, 2017
24 x 16 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Turbinate monodont (Phorcus turbinatus)
Watercolour, 2017
24 x 16 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Cerithium vulgatum
Watercolour, 2017
21 x 15 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Noah’s Ark shell (Arca noae)
Watercolour, 2017
21 x 15 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)
Watercolour, 2017
24 x 16 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Bean clam (Donax variegatus)
Watercolour, 2017
24 x 16 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France.
Filtrating greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Pencil, 2017
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France in the “Parc Ornithologique de Pont de Gau”.
Sketches of Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus)
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France at the zoo of Montpellier.
Sketches of two tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum)
Pencil, 2017
29,5 x 21 cm
The picture originated during an educational jurney to the South of France in “La serre amazonienne” in Montpellier.
Juvenile water scorpions (Nepa cinerea)
Watercolour, 2017
32 x 24 cm
Sketch of a common ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Pencil, 2013
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
South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) & Australasian pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), New Zealand
The moa were ratites in nine species in New Zealand, whereof Dinornis robustus was the biggest. They were hunted until extinction within 100 years by the ancestors of the Maori that migrated at the end of the 13th century.
Pencil, 2016/17
59,5 x 42 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
The Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)), introduced from Southeast Asia to Germany in the 1980s, is often found in the Elbe near Dresden.
Watercolour, 2016
29,5 x 21 cm
European red deer (Cervus elaphus elaphus)
Ink, 2014/16
29,5 x 21 cm
Eurasian aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) in front of a settlement of the Bandkeramik culture. The aurochs is a wild cattle that became extinct in 1627 and is the ancestor of our domestic cattle.
Coloured pencil, 2015
42 x 29,5 cm
Sachsens Geschichte unterm Acker – Landwirte schützen Denkmale, 2015, Sächsischer Landtag www.archaeologie.sachsen.de/5822.htm
Flamingos in mist (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Pencil, 2014/15
42 x 29,5 cm
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex); East Africa
Pencil, 2014
29,5 x 21 cm
MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2015, Heineanum Halberstadt
Female red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra); northern hemisphere
Pencil, 2014
29,5 x 21 cm
King vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa); Central and South America
Pencil, 2014
29,5 x 21 cm
MoVo – Moderne Vogelbilder, 2015, Heineanum Halberstadt