Otto Albert Koch

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Otto Albert Carl Koch (born May 28, 1866 in Mannheim ; † June 8, 1921 in Heidelberg ) was a German history and genre painter and watercolor painter .

family

Koch was a son of the Mannheim merchant Johann Karl Friedrich Koch and his wife Caroline Auguste Ferdinande, née. Huss, a daughter of the forwarding agent and later mayor of Ludwigshafen Carl Huss . A great-grandfather was the Mannheim court painter Friedrich Sprecher.

Life

After training as an interior decorator and studying at the art academy in Karlsruhe , Otto Albert Koch traveled to Italy, Portugal, Tyrol and the Netherlands as well as the Baltic Sea. He spent a few years in Detmold . Because of his poor health, he finally moved to the spa town of Baden-Baden , where he began to paint professionally. His acquaintance with the painter and art patron Robert Engelhorn , the son of the entrepreneur Friedrich Engelhorn , the founder of BASF Ludwigshafen, helped him . Together with Engelhorn he founded the "Free Artists' Community Baden-Baden". He later moved to Heidelberg, where he became a member of the Kunstverein in 1914 and a building officer in 1919.

Koch exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace , in the Munich Secession and in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, which opened in 1909 . His most important works are the large-format mythology and history pictures “The triumphal procession of Bacchus” and the “Greeting of the Cheruscan warriors returning home”. Five of his pictures are in the historic “ Neuer Krug ” inn in Detmold .

Web links

Commons : Otto Albert Koch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

^ Josef A. Raimar: Mayor Carl Huss, his relatives, paternal ancestors and namesakes . In: Oskar Poller, Josef Raimar: On the history of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Well-known families and personalities . Issue 1. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1970, p. 12.

personal data
SURNAME	Koch, Otto Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koch, Otto Albert Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history and genre painter as well as watercolor painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1921
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Josef A. Raimar: Mayor Carl Huss, his relatives, paternal ancestors and namesakes . In: Oskar Poller, Josef Raimar: On the history of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Well-known families and personalities . Issue 1. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1970, p. 12.