Karl Otto Matthaei

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Karl Otto Matthaei (born November 30, 1863 in Hamburg , † December 19, 1931 in Bremen ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

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He completed his training from 1891 to 1900 at the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, which was one of the leading landscape schools in Germany. His first teacher was Franz Hein (1863–1927) from Altona. Influenced by Christian Ludwig Bockelmann (1844–1894), Matthaei became a master student of Gustav Schönleber (1851–1917). His first study trips took him to the area around Karlsruhe. Around 1894 he lived in the Grötzingen painters' colony in an artist community with Franz Hein , Otto Fikentscher (1862–1945), Gustav Kampmann (1859–1917), Friedrich Kallmorgen (1856–1924) and Karl Biese (1863–1926). In 1895, Karlsruhe art students founded an artists' colony under the direction of their teacher Carlos Grethe (1864–1913) in Duhnen, Altenwalde and Altenbruch (Cuxhaven), of which Karl Otto Matthaei was one of the founding members.

In 1903 Karl Otto Matthaei met his future wife Agnes Henriette Louise von Holten (June 9, 1868 - August 1, 1949) from Hamburg as a painting student and married on June 28, 1905. Their only child, Herta Ursula, was born on November 13, 1909 born in Karlsruhe.

Karlsruhe was Matthaeis' official residence until 1916, although this was regularly interrupted by his annual study and painting visits to the North Sea and the Lower Elbe region. He then moved to Bremen. Matthaei was for many years chairman of the Bremen Artists Association and was made an honorary member in 1924. In 1930 he was appointed honorary president of the Association of Northwest German Artists. The artist's last oil painting was created in the autumn of 1931 in Bremen's Bürgerpark. Matthaei was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

  • Karl Otto Matthaei - self-portrait 1894

  • Karl Otto Matthaei - Post windmill in Neuhaus (Oste) - property of the "Am Dobrock" municipality

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SURNAME Matthaei, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1931
Place of death Bremen