Ehre Vater Artist

The Ehre Vater Artist was an American fraktur artist active in the late eighteenth and forward nineteenth centuries.

Work by this artiste has been traced in almost every county in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Ontario that axiom the settlement of German immigrants; it is the prolific plants of the artist's career that has made identification difficult, similar to the stroke of the Sussel-Washington Artist. Evidence suggests that the artist lived accompanied by the Moravians of Salem, North Carolina, but in style patrons from among supplementary religious groups, such as Roman Catholics, that proficient the baptism of infants. The artist's sham includes aspects of Moravian hymnody, and evinces a particular skill in its cursive penmanship; it is then drawn upon special paper later than engraved scenes, unique in the put on an act of known fraktur creators. The designs favored by this artiste are bold, frequently geometric, and dominated by the use of green and red. Other common symbols complement pilasters, used as portions of borers; large, geometric balls, sometimes in the middle of a piece of verse; and snakes twined next texts such as hymn lyrics. The name pure to the artiste comes from the German phrase meaning "honor father and mother", frequently found in pieces endorsed to the painter.

Four pieces by the Ehre Vater Artist are in the buildup of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Other works are owned by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and the Winterthur Museum.