Ernst Otto Reiniger

The brothers Ernst Otto (1841–1873) and Paul Emil Reiniger (1839–1902). Painting by Sophie Pilgram (1808–1870), Stuttgart, around 1848

Roof landscape , oil sketch on cardboard, private property

Ernst Otto Reiniger (born May 25, 1841 in Stuttgart ; † April 12, 1873 there ) was a German landscape painter .

Live and act

Ernst Otto Reiniger came from a Stuttgart merchant family. A skilful draftsman and cello player already in his youth, he only decided on his actual vocation as an artist after completing a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company. Now he attended the Stuttgart art school , where he found a decisive supporter in Heinrich Funk .

In the summer of 1863 he went to Munich and in the autumn enrolled at the art academy there. In the late summer of 1864, Reiniger went on a long study trip to Lake Garda. Here he met the Munich painter Johann Friedrich Hennings (1838–1899), who soon became his best friend and next to Eduard Schleich (1812–1874) and the Swabian compatriots Carl Ebert (1821–1885) and Gustav (Paul) Cloß (1840 –1870) had a decisive influence on his continuing education.

After his stay in Italy, Reiniger settled in Munich. From now on, the Bavarian lakes, but also South Tyrol and Northern Italy, provided the eye fodder for his landscape painting. Reiniger was a member of the artists 'association “ Kassandra ” and had just made a name for himself in the Munich art scene when, in the spring of 1873, a liver disease forced him to return to his parents' home, to which he succumbed in a few weeks. Today Reiniger is a largely forgotten artist. Most of his artistic legacy is in private or family ownership.

literature

August Wintterlin : Nekrolog, in: Staatsanzeiger für Württemberg 1873, p. 829
August Wintterlin: Reininger, Ernst Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 86 f.

Individual evidence

↑ The father, Ludwig Reiniger (1807–1876), married. 1839 with Christiane Caroline Schlözer (1818–1884), was a cloth merchant in Stuttgart. Ernst Otto is a cousin of the impressionist Otto Reiniger (1863–1909).
^ Matriculation .
↑ On the artists' association “Kassandra” and its importance for the development of the Munich School of the early days cf. Hans-Peter Bühler : Anton Braith, Christian Mali. Animal painter of the Munich School , Mainz 1981, p. 34 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Cleaner, Ernst Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1873
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] The father, Ludwig Reiniger (1807–1876), married. 1839 with Christiane Caroline Schlözer (1818–1884), was a cloth merchant in Stuttgart. Ernst Otto is a cousin of the impressionist Otto Reiniger (1863–1909).

[2] Matriculation .

[3] On the artists' association “Kassandra” and its importance for the development of the Munich School of the early days cf. Hans-Peter Bühler : Anton Braith, Christian Mali. Animal painter of the Munich School , Mainz 1981, p. 34 ff.