Carl Eytel
German–American artist
Died when: 63 years 5 days (756 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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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 settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903.With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with the 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 would die in poverty.Eytel's most important work, Desert Near Palm Springs, hangs in the History Room of the California State Library.
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