Seabed marine invertebrates: Sea Cucumber (Cucumaria planci), Violet or Purple Sea Urchin (Sphaerechinus granularis), Red Starfish (Echinaster sepositus) and Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis). Depicted in a rare early 1900s German chromolithograph print of a painting by wildlife artist, Paul Flanderky (1872-1937). It helped to illustrate the (1911-18) 4th edition of Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s Animal Life).
Sea Cucumber, Violet or Purple Sea Urchin and two different types of starfish: sea bed marine invertebrates depicted in a rare early 1900s chromolithograph print of a painting signed by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky (1872-1937). Flanderky’s painting was among the images used to illustrate the revised 4th edition (1911-18) of the zoological encyclopaedia, ’Brehms Tierleben’ (Brehm’s Animal Life). The Tierleben or Thierleben first appeared in 1860 as a 10-volume 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. The marine invertebrate or echinoderm sea creatures in Flanderky’s artwork are (1) a Sea Cucumber or (German) Seegurke (Cucumaria planci), (2) a Violet or Purple Sea Urchin or Seeigel (Sphaerechinus granularis), (3) a Red Starfish or Seelterne (Echinaster sepositus), and (4) a Spiny Starfish or Seelterne (Marthasterias glacialis). 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. 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 title and white borders, the full colour illustration without any borders or title and, lastly, a square crop of part of the artwork.
Size: 13251px × 9449px
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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