Karl Eifler

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Karl Eifler (born December 2, 1896 in Kunnersdorf auf dem Eigen ; † September 25, 1974 in Berlin-Müggelheim ) was a German painter .

Life

The farmer's son from Upper Lusatia trained as an art teacher. He passed both teaching exams in Löbau . After returning from the First World War , he took up a position as an art teacher in the small town of Niedercunnersdorf in 1919 . Between 1925 and 1937 he took professional painting lessons from artists, including Wolf Röhricht in Berlin, and showed his first own works at exhibitions of the Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden . In 1933 he moved to a rector's position in Taubenheim / Spree before the war caught up with him again and he became a soldier again. Under the Soviet occupation he was discharged from school in 1945. Around 1949 he moved to south-east Berlin, where he was employed in Köpenick from 1951 to 1957 as a drawing teacher for watercolors , portraits , nudes and at times also fashion . He also worked as a freelance portrait, landscape and genre painter in Müggelheim. He died there on September 25, 1974.

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