Struthiomimus Puzzle — Harder 1906 Tiere der Urwelt

In 1906, Heinrich Harder painted a dinosaur that looked like no dinosaur anyone had imagined before — long-necked, ostrich-like, moving through a Cretaceous landscape with an almost birdlike grace. The image appeared as a collectible card distributed with cocoa tins across Germany, and it introduced a generation of children to the deep past. This puzzle brings that image back.

The puzzle reproduces Heinrich Harder's 1906 watercolour illustration of Struthiomimus from Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Primeval World), originally published in the German magazine Die Gartenlaube and distributed as a hand-colourised collectible card by the Reichardt Cocoa Company — a lush Cretaceous landscape with the ostrich-mimic dinosaur in full stride, rendered in Harder's characteristic naturalistic style that pioneered the genre of scientific paleoart.

Product Details

• Pieces: 30 large, easy-to-handle pieces with rounded corners
• Finished size: 14 × 11 in (35.6 × 28 cm)
• Construction: Durable laminated chipboard
• Print: Hand-colourised reproduction of Harder's 1906 watercolour illustration
• Includes: Box with full-colour reference image for easy assembly and storage
• Recommended age: 3–7 years

Perfect For

• Children ages 3–7 discovering dinosaurs for the first time
• Young nature lovers and budding palaeontologists
• Parents and educators who value historically meaningful play
• Thoughtful birthday or holiday gifts
• Montessori and nature-inspired playrooms
• Collectors of vintage paleoart and natural history illustration

Read more: The Ostrich Mimic and the Cocoa Cards: Heinrich Harder and the Birth of Paleoart