Leopold Wächtler

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.^[1] He studied with Alois Kolb in Leipzig and went on study visits to Paris, Spain, Italy, North Africa, the Balkans and Switzerland.^[2] Particularly notable are his signed woodcuts of Franz Liszt, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gerhart Hauptmann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.^[3] His portrait of Henrik Ibsen (1928) is regarded as a woodcut masterwork of the 20th century.^[4] He died in 1988 in Leipzig.