Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus, above) and Greenland Cod (Gadus ogac, below): borderless signed painting by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky (1872-1937), published in Leipzig and Vienna in the (1911-18) 4th edition of Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s Animal Life).
Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus, above) and Greenland Cod (Gadus ogac, below): borderless early 1900s painting signed by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky (1872-1937), published in the revised 4th edition (1911-18) of ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Brehm’s Animal Life). The Tierleben or Thierleben first appeared in 1860 as a 10-volume zoological reference work or encyclopaedia under the direction of zoologist, writer and traveller Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884). By 1911, it had grown to 13 volumes. Paul Flanderky was trained at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory and the Museum of Applied Arts, both in Berlin, and also at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He qualified as a drawing teacher and taught at the Lessing-Gymnasium, a Berlin high school. As well as his paintings for Brehms Tierleben, he also illustrated children’s books and biology text books and created collectable images of amphibians, spiders and worms for the Stollwerck chocolate company. Haddock and cod are saltwater ray-finned fish of the family Gadidae. Haddock are harvested in the North Atlantic Ocean. The fish has a long, tapering body with three dorsal fins; the longest haddock recorded was 94 cm (37 in) and weighed 11 kg (24 lb). Greenland Cod, also known as ogac, are genetically similar to Pacific Cod, and are found in the Arctic Ocean and the northwestern Atlantic. Although it has been fished commercially, catches have reduced as stocks have shrunk. Greenland Cod grow to about 77 cm (30 in). This image comes from our exclusive high resolution scan of an original early 1900s full colour book plate. Our scan is available in three versions on : the full page with its original ‘Schellfisch (1) und Dorsch (2)’ title and white borders, the full colour illustration without any borders or title and, lastly, a square crop of part of the artwork.
Size: 13302px × 8200px
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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