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1934 Berlin, Germany - 1994 Idyllwild, California. Known for: Jazz and culinary figurative art, expressionist abstract, mixed media painting.
The following information is from Jennifer Meiersdorff, widow of the artist. Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. As a young child, he spent time living both... Read full biography
The following information is from Jennifer Meiersdorff, widow of the artist. Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. As a young child, he spent time living both in Berlin and the family estate in East Prussia, where his Prussian 'junker' family raised Trahkehner... Read full biography
The following information is from Jennifer Meiersdorff, widow of the artist. Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. As a young child, he spent time living both in Berlin and the family estate in East Prussia, where his Prussian 'junker' family raised Trahkehner horses and sheep. Family trips to Rügen on the Baltic Sea and to grandparents in Magdeburg provided wonderful early childhood memories. After WWII, Leo's family resettled in Berlin where he graduated... Read full biography
The following information is from Jennifer Meiersdorff, widow of the artist. Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. As a young child, he spent time living both in Berlin and the family estate in East Prussia, where his Prussian 'junker' family raised Trahkehner horses and sheep. Family trips to Rügen on the Baltic Sea and to grandparents in Magdeburg provided wonderful early childhood memories. After WWII, Leo's family resettled in Berlin where he graduated from high school. Despite his family's objections, he began to pursue a career as an artist. Financing his studies by going to sea, he worked on a herring trawler in the North Sea and as a merchant seaman traveling far from his studies, but giving... Read full biography
The following information is from Jennifer Meiersdorff, widow of the artist. Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. As a young child, he spent time living both in Berlin and the family estate in East Prussia, where his Prussian 'junker' family raised Trahkehner horses and sheep. Family trips to Rügen on the Baltic Sea and to grandparents in Magdeburg provided wonderful early childhood memories. After WWII, Leo's family resettled in Berlin where he graduated from high school. Despite his family's objections, he began to pursue a career as an artist. Financing his studies by going to sea, he worked on a herring trawler in the North Sea and as a merchant seaman traveling far from his studies, but giving him many perspectives. As an art student, he was greatly influenced by Max Pechstein, Karl-Schmitt Rottluff, and Oskar Kokoschka and paint... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Poster Art, Poster Design
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
Art Subject
- •Caricatures
- •Food, Comestible Still Life
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Musicians, Music Genre, Music
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Germany After 1900
Art Teacher
- •Oskar Kokoschka
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Watercolor Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •German