Eberhard Schlotter

EBERHARD SCHLOTTER (Hildesheim, 1921 - Altea, 2014).
"Christopher Columbus. A new history of discovery". Artist's book, 1989.
29 engravings by Eberhard Schlotter. Copy 50/92.
Texts by Juan Pérez de Tudela y Bueso (Madrid,1922 - 2004).
Publisher: Rembrandt S.A.
Damaged in the box.
Measurements: 49 x 35 cm; 53 x 43 x 10 x 10 cm.
Schlotter was a German draftsman, teacher and engraver. Schlotter was born into a family of artists. He was the eldest son of the sculptor and art professor Heinrich Schlotter and Irene Noak. His siblings, the renowned sculptor Gotthelf Schlotter (1922-2007), Georg and Jeanne Irene, were artists. Since his childhood, Eberhard was attracted to the arts. In 1934 his first pen drawing appeared in a newspaper. He was a free pupil of Wilhem Maiggater at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the Industrial School in Hildesheim. Maiggater taught him the rudiments of steel and diamond needle engraving and the technique of etching. He soon gave birth to his first etching and held his first solo exhibition. In 1939 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1941 he participated as the youngest artist in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. His works displeased the representatives of the Nazi Party. Mobilized, Schlotter fought on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. Seriously wounded in 1944, he met his future wife, the then nurse Dorothea von der Leyden, in the hospital and married her on August 6 of the same year. Prisoner of the U.S. Army, he was released in 1945 after spending several months in Cherbourg and Le Mans. In Munich he continued his art studies. In 1947 his daughter Sibyla was born. In 1955 he met the novelist Arno Schmidt, which resulted in numerous portraits of the novelist and paintings of the village where he lived, Bargfeld. In the seventies he met Alfredo Gómez Gil, of whose works he was to be the main illustrator, and Camilo José Cela. He was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg and a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 1972 he was appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Schlotter was considered one of the best engravers of the time on the international scene and the great master of etching.