Eduard Stiefel
Born in 1875.
Died in 1967.
Eduard Stiefel (5 April 1875, Riesbach – 30 December 1967, Zürich) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and illustrator. After an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Zürich, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich from 1898 to 1902. During his studies in Munich, he attended, among others, the classes of Johann Caspar Herterich and Peter Halm.
Appointed a professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Zürich in 1905, he taught graphic design and also taught at Luise Stadler’s «Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeschule für Damen». Later, he worked as a drawing teacher at the cantonal grammar school in Zürich. His work comprises oil paintings, murals (frescoes), drawings, aquatints/engravings and woodcuts.
Alongside this, he worked as a poster designer, stage decorator and illustrator of school textbooks. Among the surviving dated posters are «Eidg. Turnfest» (1906), «Los Grisones» (1927) and «Arosa» (1939), which address sporting and tourism-related themes.
Notices indicate that works by Stiefel may have been exhibited in museums in Lugano, Wuppertal and Zürich. In his family life, he was the father of two sons mentioned in the sources: Eduard Ludwig Stiefel, a mathematician, and Kurt Günther Stiefel, who was a rector.
