Irmgard Meinhold  (1869 - ar. 1931)

Irmgard Meinhold  (1869 - ar. 1931)

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Although known as an etcher represented in Reinhard  Piper’s 1904  catalogue with 9 etchings of which none were ever seen it lasted until Januari 2025 before a first example by her as a woodblock artist surfaced in a German auction./ 

Read her and her sisters Gertrud and Elfriede’s interesting biography in the accompanying this collection “le Vite”: the lives of the pioneering generation of women colour woodblock printmakers. 

Her 14 year younger sister Gertrud, who’d studied under Lovis Corinth,  is known as a painter and etcher (below with self portrait )