Eveline Adelheid von Maydell [SEP] place of death
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell ( Frank; 19 May 1890 in Tehran – 24 December 1962 in Sintra) was a German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1922.
Several of her artworks were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the 1920s, and again in the 1940s.
She is described as being ambidextrous in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 1942:
Maydell
Maydell is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Sabine von Maydell (born 1955), German television actress
- Eveline Adelheid von Maydell (née Frank, 1890–1962), German silhouette artist
- Viktor von Maydell (1833–1898), Baltic German railway engineer and former mayor of Reval (now Tallinn)