Ewald Arndt Čeplin (Zschepplin)

(Merseburg, Germany, 1865 – ?)

Worked as a professor of drawing in Sofia, where he and several other artists founded the Society for supporting the art which had an important impact on the popularisation of the visual arts in Bulgaria. In Sarajevo he was an associate of the literary and arts magazine “Nada” (1895-1903) and a member of the Sarajevo Painting Club. He taught drawing at the Gymnasium in Tuzla in the period 1905–1911. He painted landscapes in a stylistic range from plein air to Art Nouveau. He excelled at drawing portraits with prominent characterization, but he was more of an illustrator than a painter.