Carl Eytel

(1862-1925)

German-American artist

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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 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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Born	12 September 1862 Maichingen, Sindelfingen, Böblingen district, Württemberg, Germany
Died	17 September 1925 (aged 63) Banning, California, United States
Zodiac	Virgo
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