As with other avid collectors Hartmut Zantke became a writer since he desired to discover more about a specific topic, in his instance that the background and manufacture of Mexican alebrijes. Attending an exhibition of Mexican art in 1991 he saw painted wooden figurines by native artists: a jaguar with individual attributes, a cat decorated with blue, yellow and red Zapotec decorations on black backdrop, a chubby, incredibly elongated pig painted with vibrant blossoms and white doves. He had be...