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Karl Felix Eisengräber (born March 7, 1874 in Leipzig , † April 29, 1940 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Felix Eisengräber: Grins near Landeck in Tirol (1940)

Life

Felix Eisengräber studied first at the Art Academy in Leipzig with Ludwig Nieper , later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Herterich and Paul Hoecker . After the death of Anton Ažbe, Eisengräber and Paul Weinhold continued to run his school until 1913. He was a member of the Luitpold Group , a spin-off of the Munich artists' cooperative and the association Die Independentigen (artists) .

In his early years he designed book covers , especially in Art Nouveau , for the publisher S. Fischer and the commission bookseller Friedrich Volckmar, among others . He used the monogram FE.

He was mainly active as a portrait and landscape painter with a number of people from the area around Munich, Chiemsee and Tyrol, here mainly using the impressionist technique.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, p. 67
  2. ↑ Search Felix Eisengräber in publishing Binding database. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Mühlinghaus and Annelen Ottermann: Publisher's covers from the Mainz City Library and the Mühlinghaus Collection . Mainz 2009, p. 38 ( rclis.org [PDF]).
  4. ^ Otto Grautoff : The development of modern book art in Germany . Seemann, Leipzig 1901, p. 166 f., 178 .
  5. ^ Thieme / Becker: General Lexicon of the Fine Arts . tape 10 , 1914.
  6. ↑ Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century . tape 2 , 1955.

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personal data
SURNAME Iron digger, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisengräber, Karl Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1940
Place of death Munich