Carl Eytel
| Carl Eytel | |
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Eytel sketching – during his trip with George Wharton James, c. 1900
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| Born |
Karl Adolf Wilhelm Eytel September 12, 1862 Maichingen Böblingen Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany |
| Died | September 17, 1925 (aged 63) Banning, California |
| Resting place |
Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery, Palm Springs 33°49′21″N 116°32′02″W / 33.8224°N 116.5340°WCoordinates: 33°49′21″N 116°32′02″W / 33.8224°N 116.5340°W |
| Nationality | German American |
| Education | self taught; Royal Art School of Stuttgart |
| Known for | painting, landscapes, illustrations |
| Notable work |
Desert near Palm Springs (1914) now in the California State Library California History Room |
| Movement | "Smoketree School", California Plein-Air Painting, American Impressionism, Realism |
| Patron(s) | Martha M. Newkirk |
Carl Eytel (September 12, 1862 – September 17, 1925) was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he eventually settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert, and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as an ascetic and eventually died in poverty. Eytel's most important work, Desert Near Palm Springs, hangs in the History Room of the California State Library.
Carl Eytel was born as Karl Adolf Wilhelm Eytel in Maichingen, Böblingen to Tusnelda (née Schmid) and Friederick Hermann Eytel, a Lutheran minister in the Kingdom of Württemberg (now the state of Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart), Germany. As a boy, he became a ward of his grandfather when his father died. Eytel was well educated in the German gymnasium and became enamored of the American West while reading the works of Prussian natural science writer and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, which he found in the Stuttgart Royal Library. From 1880 to 1884 he studied forestry in Tübingen and then was drafted into the German Army. He first traveled to the United States in 1885 aboard the Suevia and worked as a ranch hand in Kansas. Later he worked at a slaughterhouse for 18 months to earn his living and to study cattle. In 1891, he read an article about the Palm Springs area in the San Francisco Call and was "incited" to visit the California desert.
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