Jörg Kühn (1940–1964) was a Swiss artist, naturalist and scientific illustrator who specialized in bird paintings and drawings.
Kühn's reputation as a master of the exact portrayal of animals is based on a professional career that lasted barely six years during which he worked prolifically.
As well as scientific publications, he was sometimes employed as an illustrator of books including the children's book Der Wald Und Seine Tierre (The Forest and its Animals) (1963)[2] where his illustrations included monographs of forest animals.
[2]His colour plates include those of threatened wildlife that were commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund and contributions to the Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas (Handbook of the Birds of Central Europe).
[3] Although Jörg Kühn's is chiefly remembered as a wildlife illustrator he was also commissioned to illustrate a number of medical textbooks including for the Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands [4] Kühn died in Zürich in October 1964 aged 24 from Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed when he was 18 years of age.