Eurasian Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) with cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis)
Oil paint on paper, 2018
40 x 30 cm
Tag: Aves
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
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
Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
Watercolour, 2018
24 x 16 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
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
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”.
Sketch of a common ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Pencil, 2013
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