3827 - Curt Meyer-Eberhardt, collection of prints

Curt Meyer-Eberhardt, collection of prints seven sheets depicting cats and one sheet depicting a young fox sitting down, colour etchings, mid-20th century, signed in pencil/signed posthumously, varying conditions, image dimensions max. approx. 28 x 38 cm, sheet dimensions max. approx. 44 x 54 cm. Artist information: originally Kurt Ernst Meyer; from 1916 onwards, he adopted the name ‘Curt Meyer-Eberhardt’ by adding his mother’s maiden name, German animal painter, illustrator and etcher (1895, Leipzig - 1977, Munich); spent his childhood in Erfurt from 1899; studied at the Weimar Academy from 1911 to 1915 under Max Thedy and Theodor von Hagen, and was a master student of Walter Klemm; In 1915, he moved to Munich and served briefly in the First World War; thanks to his highly popular etchings depicting animal and hunting scenes - published from 1917 onwards by Hanfstaengl in Munich - he achieved financial independence at an early age, In 1919-20, he was briefly a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Lyonel Feininger; in 1920, he moved permanently to Munich, where he worked as a freelance artist; exhibited at the Neue Münchner Sezession until 1926; undertook study trips to Italy, the south of France and Yugoslavia; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; received a lifetime honorary pension from the City of Munich from 1972; worked in Munich, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists*; Bénézit; Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries*; Dressler; and Wikipedia.