Ernö Koch

Ernö Koch (1898-1970) was a graphical artist. Born on the 8th of August 1898 in Hungary (in Szaszvarosis, Transilvania), died on the 31st of March 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived in Estonia from 1926 to 1940, where he made many drawings of well known places. His works have been exposed in several museums in Estonia.

Erno Koch immigrated to the United States in 1950 and lived in Florida until 1952. In 1952 he married Estonian Juta Kajati in New York and moved to Chicago where he worked for a firm that designed stained glass windows for churches. In 1958 he moved his family to St. Louis, where he continued working in the stained glass business. During spare time and after retirement, he worked on etchings, sculptures, paintings and illustrations for books.