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karl oenike

karl oenike -lrb- 1862 -- 1924 -rrb- was a renowned german landscape painter , who participated in various scientific expeditions in south america during the years 1887-1891 as painter and photographer .
he wrote detailed diaries , made topographical maps , drawings , sketches , watercolors , oil paintings and photos during these expeditions , which give a valuable perspective of remote regions and populations , and of the difficulties encountered by german explorers in the 1880s .
few artists in the exotic art genre have depicted better the `` magic of the forest '' in his paintings .
