Felix Eisengräber
Appearance
Karl Felix Eisengräber (7 March 1874, Leipzig - 29 April 1940, Munich) was a German painter.
Biography
[edit]Felix Eisengräber began his studies at the Leipzig Academy of Art, after which he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Ludwig von Herterich and Paul Hoecker. After the death of Anton Ažbe, he and Paul Weinhold continued Ažbe's school of art until 1913.[1] He was a member of the Luitpold Group , which had split off from the Munich Artists' Association , and of a group called The Independents (Die Unabhängigen).
After World War I, by arrangement with Springer Verlag, Eisengräber provided the illustrations for new editions of medical books by Ferdinand Sauerbruch.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bernd Fäthke (2004). Jawlensky und seine Weggefährten in neuem Licht (in German). Munich: Hirmer. p. 67. ISBN 9783777424552.
- ^ Elke Flatau (2015). "Halbgott in Weiß: Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951)". Der wissenschaftliche Autor: Aspekte seiner Typologisierung am Beispiel von Einstein, Sauerbruch, Freud und Mommsen (in German). Springer VS. p. 228. ISBN 978-3-658-08141-6.