Georg Otto (graphic artist)
Georg Otto , always signed as G. Otto , (born September 6, 1868 in Paris , † May 17, 1939 ) was a German graphic artist and heraldist .
Life
Georg Otto was the son of the court engraver R. Otto, who ran his business on Unter den Linden 40. He began in his father's business as an engraver and later as a painter and draftsman. During this time he created numerous nude and landscape studies. He studied in Dresden with a friend of his father's, the sculptor Nentsch. Between 1884 and 1887 he was a student of the painter Johannes Bochenek in Berlin . Between 1887 and 1889 he took lessons from Max Koch , and between 1889 and 1891 he studied with Emil Doepler .
As a student of Doepler, Otto mainly created bookplates . By 1901 he had already drawn 110 bookplates. He preferred a heraldic design language, but also used non-heraldic representations such as portraits and landscapes or a combination of both.
Bookplate (selection)
- Empress Auguste Viktoria , 1893
- Otto Haak, Kremsmünster, 1893
- Otto Haak, Berlin 1898
- Otto Haak, 1903
- Caroline Countess von Arnim, 1901
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , 1903
- Ernst Baron Campenhausen, Loddiger, 1905
- Irmaos da verdade, Rio de Janeiro
- Oskar Lessing, Berlin
- H. von Eckardt, Constantinople
- German Engraving Association, Berlin
- Lieutenant Kurd Warnecke, Berlin
- Harry de Forest-Smith, Gardiner
- Otto Boas, Berlin
- Erich Schmidt , Berlin
- von Transehe, Neuschwanenburg
- Max von Wedel, Berlin
- Baron von Korff, Preekuln
- NCO School of the Imperial Navy, Kiel
- Albert Freiherr von Ohlendorff
- Adolf von Brüning
- from the Borne, Berneuchen
- Dr. G. Holste
- von Bülow, Goldenbow (1916)
Fonts
- Twenty book marks. With a foreword by Friedrich Warnecke , Berlin: Stargardt 1894 ( digitized version )
literature
- Karl Emich Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg: German and Austrian library symbols. Stuttgart 1901. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf , esp. P. 382
- Ernst Rump: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912 ( digitized version ), p. 100
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to AKL online , accessed via degruyter.com on August 5, 2019
- ↑ Leiningen-Westerburg (lit.)
- ↑ Illustration in Leiningen-Westerburg, pp. 383 and 384
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ Fig. , Grolier Club , Maria Gerard Messenger Women's Bookplate Collection
- ↑ Fig. , Berlin State Library
- ↑ Fig. , University of Illinois
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ Europeana
- ↑ Europeana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto, G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and heraldist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1939 |