-
Artist: Britta Kling
Kling worked primarily in traditional hand-cut paper, using long-handled scissors to create continuous silhouettes featuring botanical forms, animals, and symbolic motifs. Her work often combined layered cut elements and selective color, reflecting both European folk traditions and late-20th-century decorative design.
She exhibited her paper cuttings throughout the United States and was an active member of the Guild of American Papercutters, serving on its board of directors. Kling is listed in the Papercutters Hall of Fame, and at least one of her works is held in the Guild’s permanent collection in Somerset, Pennsylvania. In addition to exhibition pieces, she also produced designs for greeting cards and other commercial formats.
Britta Kling is recognized for sustaining and refining the European Scherenschnitt tradition in the United States through technically precise, hand-cut paper works that bridge folk art and late-20th-century decorative design.
