Papercutters Hall of Fame

This “Hall of Fame” owes its existence to the labor of love that has been carried out for so long by David Dorfmüller, himself a longtime Guild member and wonderful papercut artist, who created and maintained for many years a sister page to this, papercutters.info. For this page, we have also freely used the articles on papercut artists available at Wikipedia.org. The following list contains many types of paper artists–illustrators, paper sculptors, silhouettists, puppeteers, filmmakers, magicians, and more–including some artists for whom papercutting itself may have been secondary to their primary art practice, e.g. early silhouettists who painted on glass. See also the ongoing wonderful compilation of papercutting artists by Elsa Mora Horberg, the artistic director and curator of ArtYard, on her site All About Papercutting. For silhouettes by UK artists, see the impressive work of the Profiles of the Past initiative, which is focused on British portrait silhouette history. Please send tips, suggestions for inclusion, photos or images of artwork that may be shown here, or even whole biographies or articles. Email us: GAP@papercutters.org