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August Specht (1 August 1849,
Lauffen am Neckar
Lauffen am Neckar () or simply Lauffen is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the river Neckar, southwest of Heilbronn. The town is famous as the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and for its qu ...
– 26 May 1923,
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
) was a German natural history artist and painter.
He was a pupil of
Heinrich Läpple and
Albert Kappis
Albert Kappis (20 August 1836, Wildberg - 18 September 1914, Stuttgart) was a German painter and draughtsperson specializing in landscapes and genre motifs.
Biography
From 1850 to 1857, Kappis trained as a lithographer in his uncle's work ...
. In 1898 he published ''Specht's Tierbilder-Buch'' with descriptions in verse of the depicted animals. Like his brother
Friedrich Specht, he also produced illustrations of animals and landscapes for a number of publications, such as ''
Brehms Tierleben
''Brehms Tierleben'' (English title: ''Brehm's Animal Life'') is a scientific reference book, first published in the 1860s by Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829–1884). It was one of the first modern popular zoological treatises. First published in ...
'' and ''
Die Gartenlaube
''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: ...
''.
Specht's brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the animal painter and illustrator
Friedrich Specht.
Auktionshaus Michael Zeller
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19th-century German painters
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
1849 births
1923 deaths
19th-century German male artists