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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. He studied with Alois Kolb in Leipzig and went on study visits to Paris, Spain, Italy, North Africa, the Balkans and Switzerland. Particularly notable are his signed woodcuts of Franz Liszt, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gerhart Hauptmann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. His portrait of Henrik Ibsen (1928) is regarded as a woodcut masterwork of the 20th century. He died in 1988 in Leipzig.

References

1. Paul Pfisterer: Signaturenlexikon / Dictionary of Signatures Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 9783110824469. p. 700 and index
2. Leopold Wächtler Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine at koeln-art.de (in German), retrieved 06-20-2012.
3. woodcuts by Leopold Wächtler at artfact.com, retrieved 06-20-2012.
4. Haye Walter Hansen: Deutsche Holzschnittmeister des 20. Jahrhunderts/Woodcut Masters of the 20th Century U. Berg-Verlag (1979) ISBN 978-3922119012 (in German) p. 287

External links

• Leopold Wächtler at eArt.com

• 1896 births
• 1988 deaths
• German artists