Angles of Art

Hand coloured etching double mounted in conservation mountcard complete with Pine & Spruce 20mm Soft Gold ARQ Moulding. Overall size of frame 540x435mm.

Biography

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt's colour 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 important reference books such as Thieme-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 became 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.

All engravings are printed on hand made paper 350g/sqm.