Luise Duttenhofer


Christiane Luise Duttenhofer was one of the most important German papercutting artists. Her work has Biedermeier, Neoclassical, Romantic features. After her death, she quickly fell into obscurity and was only rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th-century. Her husband was engraver Christian Friedrich Traugott Duttenhofer. Their son Anton Duttenhofer was also a copper engraver and a pupil of his father.