Otto Kuhler Prints:
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Best known as an industrial designer, Otto Kuhler (1894-1977) was born in Germany and settled in the United States in 1923 -- his vivid autobiography, My Iron Journey, traces his varied career (a "series of bridge-burnings") up to his final decades as a cattle rancher in Colorado.
Otto Kuhler's etchings of begrimed industry sprang from the same optimistic response to technology that led to his colorful streamlined designs for the Milwaukee, Lehigh and other railroads in the 1930's. His often majestic and occasionally disquieting subjects successfully bridge art and industry -- freely-sketched scenes that celebrate precise engineering and industrial might.
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