page_title: Eveline Adelheid von Maydell
hierarchical_section_title: Eveline Adelheid von Maydell
caption_attribution_description: Eesti: Eveline Maydell stiliseeritud Poola rahvariietes. Foto sarjast, mis on tehtud Eveline käärilõigete näituse avamise puhul New Yorgis English: Eveline Maydell in stylised Polish national costume. The photo belongs to the set of photos taken before the opening of the exhibition of Evelines silhouettes in New York
context_page_description: Eveline Adelheid von Maydell was a German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1922.
  Several of her artworks were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the 1920s, and again in the 1940s.
  She is described as being ambidextrous in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 1942: "She sketches and designs with her left hand and with her right snips with minute scissors the silhouettes..."
  She died in Portugal on December 24, 1962.
context_section_description: Eveline Adelheid von Maydell (née Frank; 19 May 1890 in Tehran – 24 December 1962 in Sintra) was a German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1922.
  Several of her artworks were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the 1920s, and again in the 1940s.
  She is described as being ambidextrous in a Milwaukee newspaper article from 1942: "She sketches and designs with her left hand and with her right snips with minute scissors the silhouettes..." 
  She died in Portugal on December 24, 1962.
caption: Maydell before the opening of her exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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