Tag: biology

Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum is attacked by the rauisuchian Teratosaurus suevicus. In the background is a herd of Plateosaurus engelhardti.

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas, 2021

40 x 30 cm

Commissioned by the faculty for geoscience at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen

Published in: O. R. Regalado Fernandez, I. Werneburg: A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 27, S. 771-822 (2022): A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘ Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen (arphahub.com)

Cryptoclidus eurymerus

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas, 2021

40 x 30 cm

Commissioned by the faculty for geoscience at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen

Published in: A. Krahl, A. S. Smith, I. Werneburg: Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton. Paläontologische Zeitschrift (2022): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-022-00616-8?fbclid=IwAR3I4AAFIoW3N-XFVZ_vkJcTFrTUD6t3xbt3FPlhHGkb8k9INpooju-c0cc

Yutyrannus huali

Pencil on paper, 2022

29,7 x 21 cm

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

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

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

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

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

Black swan (Cygnus atratus)

Watercolour, 2018

24 x 16 cm

Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

Watercolour, 2018

24 x 16 cm

Tyrannosaurus rex during dust bathing; Late Cretaceous, North America

Acrylic and Tempera on paper, 2018

40 x 30 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.

Plants of the alpine zone: yarrow (Achillea sp.) & alpine juniper (Juniperus communis var. saxatilis)

Ink, 2018

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

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.

Cows on meadow

Oil paint on paper, 2018

40 x 30 cm

Private mission

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

Sanga cattle

Ink, 2018

29,5 x 21 cm

Resting mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)

Pencil & ink, 2018

21 x 15 cm

Domestic yaks (Bos grunniens)

Ink, 2017

42 x 29,5 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.

Domestic goats (Capra aegagrus hircus)

Acrylic paint on paper, 2017

32 x 24 cm

Client: Hotel “Fernmühle” in Ziegenrück

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.

Sketch of a domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domestica)

Pencil, 2017

29,5 x 21 cm

Cow on meadow

Oil paint on paper, 2017

32 x 24 cm

Juvenile water scorpions (Nepa cinerea)

Watercolour, 2017

32 x 24 cm

Euphorbia obesa, a southern African species of spurge

Watercolor, 2017

48 x 34 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

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Spruces in mountains (Picea abies), Pinaceae

Pencil, 2016

29,5 x 21 cm

Sketch of a young Colorado fir, also known as silver fir (Abies concolor), Pinaceae

Pencil, 2015

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

corbicula_fluminea_marcus_burkhardt

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

Ginkgo leaves (Ginkgo biloba), Ginkgoales

Pencil, 2016

29,5 x 21 cm

Hollwroot (Corydalis cava), Papaveraceae, from left above to right below: cross-section through root tuber; root tuber from outside; seeds; greenery; husk-like capsule; florescence

Pencil, 2016

59,5 x 42 cm

Common cattle (Bos primigenius taurus)

Coloured pencil, 2015

29,5 x 21 cm

Private mission

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Rhododendron sp. (Ericaceae)

Pencil, 2016

42 x 29,5 cm

Mandible of a dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

Pencil, 2012

42 x 29,5 cm