Etching, hand colored c.1945-1950, self-published by Seiler, limited edition, pencil signed on front and sealed and limitation stamped on verso, numbered 30/180

SIZE IN INCHES: oban, 15 x 12.5 inches

WILLY SEILER (1903-1997) was born in 1903 in Germany. He started his art studies in Dresden, and then continued on with his studies in Munich, followed by a two-year stint in Paris. During his early years, he spent much of the time traveling in Europe and Asia. After World War II he settled permanently in Karuizawa, Japan when he became an art professor at the American Army College in Tokyo.

His primary printmaking technique was etching, forgoing the traditional Japanese woodblock process. This allowed him to simplify the print process, and bypass the use of Japanese publishers, while artfully combining the Western etching process with his tasteful depiction of Eastern subjects. In addition to personally managing the etching process, many of his prints were also colored by hand. Seiler exhibited all over the world including Rome, Paris, Jerusalem, Teheran, San Francisco and Mexico City. According to research done by Darrel C.Karl, a private collector, Will Seiler may have returned to Europe in the 1960s and may have died in 1997 in Switzerland.

VG, with minor flaws