Joseph Wolf

Joseph Wolf (January 22, 1820 - April 20 1899) was a German artist.Wolf was the son of a farmer, and was born at Münstermaifeld, on the river Moselle, in the Eifel region. In his boyhood he was an assiduous student of bird and animal life, and showed a remarkable capacity as a draughtsman of natural history subjects. At the age of sixteen he went to Koblenz to work for a firm of lithographers, and then in 1840 he moved to Frankfurt. Here he provided the illustrations for Eduard Rüppell's Birds of Northeast Africa. He next went to Darmstadt where he worked for the director of the natural history museum, Johann Jakob Kaup. His talent was then recognized by Hermann Schlegel of the Leiden museum, who gave him employment as an illustrator.
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