Carl Kayser-Eichberg

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Grave of Carl Kayser-Eichberg in the Evangelical Cemetery in Potsdam-Bornstedt

Carl Kayser-Eichberg (born April 5, 1873 in Eichberg , Silesia , † November 6, 1964 in Potsdam ) was a German painter .

Life

Carl Kayser-Eichberg was the son of a paper manufacturer in Hohenofen .

From 1893 to 1899 he studied painting at the Berlin Art Academy . From 1895 he was a master student with Eugen Bracht . During the First World War , Kayser-Eichberg was a war painter . In 1923 he joined the Potsdam Freemason Lodge Teutonia for Wisdom . From 1932 to 1936 he was chairman of the Potsdamer Künstlerverein .

Carl Kayser-Eichberg took the Impressionist direction and exhibited at the major German art exhibitions of his time. From 1900 he regularly took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

He died in 1964 and was buried in the Bornstedt cemetery .

In 2009 the Friends of the Potsdam Museum eV bought some of Carl Kayser-Eichberg's paintings for the municipal collection.