Leopold Wächtler (1896–1988) was a German artist known for his prints, portraiture and silhouettes.
Wächtler was born in 1896 in Penig, Saxony, in the German Empire.Paul Pfisterer: Signaturenlexikon / Dictionary of Signatures Walter de Gruyter, 1999, . p. 700 and index He studied with Alois Kolb in Leipzig and went on study visits to Paris, Spain, Italy, North Africa, the Balkans and Switzerland.Leopold Wächtler at koeln-art.de , retrieved 06-20-2012. Particularly notable are his signed woodcuts of Franz Liszt, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gerhart Hauptmann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.woodcuts by Leopold Wächtler at artfact.com, retrieved 06-20-2012. His portrait of Henrik Ibsen (1928) is regarded as a woodcut masterwork of the 20th century.Haye Walter Hansen: Deutsche Holzschnittmeister des 20. Jahrhunderts/Woodcut Masters of the 20th Century U. Berg-Verlag (1979) p. 287 He died in 1988 in Leipzig.
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External links Leopold Wächtler at eArt.com