Engraver
Bernhard Wienker
 (1801–1860)
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


Bernhard Wienker was born in Eschendorf (Westphalia). He became a highly prominent Berlin painter, copperplate engraver, and lithographer, rendering detailed natural history drawings onto copper and stone for major scientists of the era (including Ehrenberg and Klug). He spent over three decades working in Berlin as a premier scientific illustrator for the Zoologisches Museum and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. He became famous for his plates illustrating Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg’s masterpiece on microscopic organisms.

Some copies of illustrations by Bernhard Wienker for Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug -


Synemon nais

Synemon selene

Synemon sophia


in progress


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(written 5 August 2026, updated 21 September 2026)