Eveline Adelheid von Maydell

Eveline Adelheid von Maydell (née Frank; 19 May 1890 in Tehran – 24 December 1962 in Sintra) was an ethnic German silhouette artist.

Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[1] Several of her artworks were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the 1920s,[2][3] and again in the 1940s.

[4] She is described as being ambidextrous in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 1942: "She sketches and designs with her left hand and with her right snips with minute scissors the silhouettes..."[5] She died in Portugal on December 24, 1962.

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Maydell before the opening of her exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art .
Adelheid and several of her works on display at the Corcoran in 1925