Eustace Ziegler

Eustace Ziegler

Ziegler, Eustace

Eustace Paul Ziegler

Detroit 1881

Alaska

Seattle

painter

Northwest artist

Eustace Ziegler settled in Seattle in 1924 and became, by the 1940s, one of the only artists in the city to support himself wholly from his painting. He was prolific, producing an estimated fifty to one hundred paintings each year throughout his career. He had worked as a minister in Alaska until moving to Seattle, and returned to the Alaskan back country for four months each summer for many years. He then painted from his sketches in the winter months. With Sydney Laurence, he is considered the foremost painter of early twentieth-century Alaska. Unlike Laurence, Ziegler rarely painted a landscape without people in it; he remined fascinated by human interaction with the wilderness areas of the Northwest coast and interior.

Artist biography reproduced with permission of Katharine Harmon, author of The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History.

Male

Teacher of: Guy Anderson (American, 1906-1998)