Seahorses (Hippocampus) and Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus). Early 1900s painting by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky (1872-1937) showing several seahorses floating amidst underwater plants that help to camouflage a pipefish, published as a chromolithograph to illustrate the 1911-18 4th edition of Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s Animal Life).
Seahorses (Hippocampus) and Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus): borderless early 1900s painting by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky (1872-1937), showing several seahorses floating amidst underwater plants that help to camouflage a pipefish. Flanderky’s painting appeared in the revised 4th edition (1911-18) of the German 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. Seahorses and pipefish belong to the Syngnathidae zoological family. More than 32 species of seahorse live - like pipefish - in sheltered, shallow tropical and temperate waters worldwide, especially amongst sea grass and around coral reefs and mangroves. They have curled prehensile tails and segmented body armour to protect them against predators. Pipefish look like straight-bodied seahorses, but have smaller mouths and thin, snake-like bodies, growing up to 40 cm ( in) in length. 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. This image comes from our exclusive high resolution scan of an original early 1900s full colour book plate, and is available in three versions on : full page with original title and borders, the illustration without borders or title and, lastly, a square crop of part of the artwork.
Size: 12648px × 7813px
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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