Joseph Wolf Room
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Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) was a German artist; the first bird artist to understand and use the new freedom of style that lithography allowed. Evoking his childhood love of the countryside and wild creatures, he introduced natural settings and a feeling of motion into his paintings. One of the first and finest true bird artists, he breathed life into the stiff "bird on a perch" portrayals so characteristic of bird art of the day. Some of his best work appeared in John Gould's Birds of Great Britain.