Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert

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02 March 2011, 19:32

<generalwar>

Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert

Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert, German (1865 - 1926)
45 1/8"x 85 1/8" oil on fabric, ca.1916

03 March 2011, 02:40

bwanamrm

I love Kuhnert's work! Anyone know a link to any for sale here in the U.S.?

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03 March 2011, 05:02

Crazyhorseconsulting

Don't know of any for sale, but when I worked at the Fort Worth Zoo, they had one of the largest private collections of Kuhnert art around I believe.

They even built a special gallery to house it.

06 March 2011, 20:49

<generalwar>

His last painting to come to market was sold through Sotheby's 2010 for a staggering hammer price.

12 March 2011, 00:55

fairgame

Kuhnert is a master.

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13 March 2011, 00:02

ddrhook

the painting posted above was at Dallas SC a few years ago it is awesome

13 March 2011, 22:08

sculptor

Several of his paintings are now on display at the National Wildlife Museum in Jackson hole Wyoming. They are all breath taking.

15 March 2011, 02:49

<generalwar>

He really had a way of exuding the realistic drama to his paintings, you just feel good looking in to them.

28 March 2011, 04:34

Kamo Gari

quote:
Originally posted by generalwar:
He really had a way of exuding the realistic drama to his paintings, you just feel good looking in to them.

Better than the fellow in the painting above, anyway!

23 April 2011, 04:17

kingd

generalwar, where in Surrey did you reside. I lived in Walton-on-Thames from 1975-78. Great times for a 15yr old!

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26 September 2012, 03:23

Kathi

http://www.sitemason.com/page/drWnaU

Link to story of maneater painting.

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26 September 2012, 21:49

impala#03

Thanks Kathi, very interesting.

26 September 2012, 21:58

Sawtoothhigh

That is the most shocking piece of art I've ever seen. So graphic and a true aspect of Africa that the 'greenys' would faint over or be DRT.

Shortly I'm putting up some watercolors from a Julius Wolf that were done in Ethopia back in the '50s. Don't know a thing about him despite looking everywhere. A relative gave them to me and I think I'm going to put them up for grabs.

I've got to see the other paintings from the 'man eater' artist.

27 September 2012, 18:45

pennfly

Isn't that the painting that just sold on Lewis Drakes website?

27 September 2012, 18:46

pennfly

Yes it is and, to answer my own question, there is a writeup on it anhd some additional pictures.

30 September 2012, 03:53

Wooly ESS

Thanks for the link, Kathi. I have had numerous discussions with artist colleagues over the history of this painting. Your link sets the record straight,

30 September 2012, 21:43

Bill/Oregon

It's an African analog to Ernest Thompson Seton's "Triumph of the Wolves." Well worth the trip to Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico.

http://www.scouting.org/siteco...Library/triumph.aspx

01 October 2012, 22:11

Sawtoothhigh

I wonder how much a painting like that sells for. Was a price published ? I know my wife would not let me hang it up in the living room. It's such a shocker

04 October 2012, 22:42

pennfly

I don't believe there was a price, let me look.

04 October 2012, 22:48

pennfly

Was not there, I emailed them, lets see if they will tell us. There is some interesting history to that painting on Drakes website.

09 October 2012, 05:53

tysue

I also asked Drake for a sale price and have heard nothing, yet. Been since last week.

24 October 2012, 23:03

Sawtoothhigh

I'd like to meet the wife who would let this painting hang in the living room. It's a given mine won't.

This has to be the most shocking African art I've seen.

28 October 2012, 04:19

MJines

Banovich has a similar painting. You can hang them both in your living room . . . assuming you are single.

28 October 2012, 04:45

Wooly ESS

Not all art is meant to be hung in the living room! For example, either one of those two pieces would look pretty good in my gunroom - right next to the coyote skulls!

03 November 2012, 05:31

lavaca

Saw the Banovich in his last mailing; it's one of a few that I hope my wife selects from for Christmas. I'm saving a space between a kudu and gemsbok right over the computer in my office for the picture.

They deliver two buffalo -- a floor pedestal and a European, and a Coke's Hartebeest and Wildebeest next week (rest is going home). Office is starting to take shape.