Felix Eisengräber

Karl Felix Eisengräber, born on March 7, 1874, in Leipzig, and died on April 29, 1940, in Munich, was a German painter and graphic artist. Felix Eisengräber initially studied at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts under Ludwig Nieper and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Herterich and Paul Hoecker. After the death of Anton Ažbe, Eisengräber, together with Paul Weinhold, continued his school until 1913. He was a member of the Luitpold Group, a splinter group of the Munich Artists’ Association, as well as the association “Die Unabhängigen” (The Independents).

In his early years, he designed book covers, primarily in the Art Nouveau style, for publishers such as S. Fischer and the commission bookseller Friedrich Volckmar, using the monogram FE.

Eisengräber primarily worked as a portrait and landscape painter, creating a series of works depicting the surroundings of Munich, Chiemsee, and Tyrol, often using impressionistic techniques.