Monday, August 17, 2009

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt








Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt (1895 - 1977)

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt's color engravings are famous all over the world. He is one of the great copper engravers of the 20th century. His name can be found in all the important reference books such as Theime-Becker/Benezit/Vollmer Art Lexicon. Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt was born in Leipzig in 1895. He studied at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts where he was a student under the artists Theodor Hagen and Lionel Feininger. He rejected a professorship in Weimar and went to Munich where he decided to work entirely on animal engravings.


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