Heinrich Leutemann

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Heinrich Leutemann, ca 1880
The Vandals sacking Rome, by Leutemann

Gottlob Heinrich (Henrik) Leutemann (8 October 1824 — 14 December 1905) was a German artist and book illustrator. He was born in Leipzig and studied there.

He produced

lithographs for instructional posters
. In the 1850s, he worked on pictures of animals for a
cage in the Hamburg Zoo), and Manatees ("Manatees
"). Hagenbeck's Tierpark still brings visitors to Hamburg.

With a professor named A. Kirchoff, who wrote the text, Leutemann produced Graphic Pictures of Native Life in Distant Lands, illustrating the Typical Races of Mankind (1888). This was meant to be an

Hottentots, the Negros, the Nubians, the Arabs, the Indians, the Chinese, and the Japanese
.

He also worked with

astronomical achievements (1876).[1]

He died at Chemnitz-Wittgensdor.

Notes

  1. ^ Er.uqam.ca, Ptolemy: Iconography of his portrait / Ptolémée: Iconographie de son portrait

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