Klaus Meyer

Klaus Meyer

(b. 1918 Berlin, Germany – immigrated to Great Britain 1938 – d. 2002 Cambridgeshire, England)

Girl in Red, 1990 Woodcut on paper 45 x 36.5 cm Signed and dated (lower right) ‘Klaus Meyer ‘90’ Ben Uri Collection Presented by the artist 1996

Meyer’s printmaking is distinguished by its bold formal characteristics. Girl in Red is based on an earlier portrait of his daughter Rachel, set in their Hampstead garden. Born into an assimilated German-Jewish family in 1918, Klaus Meyer immigrated to England in 1938. He studied graphics at the Central School of Arts and Crafts before being interned in Shropshire, then Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man (1940–42). After release, he studied painting and then printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, taking up woodcuts in his mid-30s.