Martha mayer erlebacher biography of michael jordan

Still Life #1 • Print / Lithograph on Paper 22" x 29"

For 36 years the two perfectionist artists shared an immaculate home.

Martha mayer erlebacher biography of michael jordan

Together Walter and Martha Erlebacher made the journey against the flow of modern art, moving from abstraction to realism rather than the opposite, more beaten, path. He was a scientist before turning to sculpture where he applied his mathematics training to create precisely scaled and detailed human figures.

His search was for eternal truths. The human figure became his guide.

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She followed.

In 1989, three years before Walter’s death, Martha Mayer Erlebacher painted a self-portrait, her eyes totally obscured beneath the wide brim of her straw hat because, “The eyes are the windows to the soul.

I didn’t want to be that exposed.” 

For 20 years after Walter’s death, Martha walked alone. She continued teaching at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, where they had both taught.