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Leo Meiersdorff Jazz Pianist Watercolor

  Lot # 038
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Very Good
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15" x 18"
Location
Upstairs Hallway
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Lot # 038
System ID # 700212
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1976 Watercolor Print New Orleans Jazz Pianist by Leo Meiersdorff. Companion piece offered in Lot #38. 

Biography taken from Olivia On Warren Studio Website: Leo Meiersdorff was born 14 December 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. After WWII, Leo’s family resettled in Berlin where he graduated from high school. Despite his family’s objections, he began to pursue a career as an artist. Financing his studies by going to sea, he worked on a herring trawler in the North Sea and as a merchant seaman traveling far from his studies, but giving him many perspectives. As an art student, he was greatly influenced by Max Pechstein, Karl-Schmitt Rottluff, and Oskar Kokoschka and painted in an expressionistic style. He also loved music—particularly jazz. He liked to emulate famous jazz pianists and formed a group of like-minded musicians in Berlin. In the late 1950’s, Norman Granz, through the U.S. Department of State, sponsored wellknown jazz musicians in cultural exchanges around the world. One such concert was headed to Berlin. Leo entered a competition to design the record album cover for that event—and won! This could be considered the juncture when art and jazz became a theme for Leo. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, he embarked on trips to New York City and southern California, Laguna Beach and the LA area, meeting fellow artists and following the jazz scene there before returning to Europe to continue working in the arts. By 1966, Leo was firmly planted in NYC, painting large expressionistic pieces in oils and mixed media. He befriended many jazz musicians and other people in the music world and began to focus on painting jazz figures in watercolors. His smaller jazz pieces became known in jazz circle, eventually becoming a demand outside of his musician friends. Leo died in 1994, at the age of 59 years.