Otto Boyer

Otto Boyer on a study trip to Granada , Alhambra

Cockfight in Spain , drawing by Otto Boyer, undated

Otto Boyer (born June 21, 1874 in Ückendorf near Gelsenkirchen , † December 30, 1912 in Jena ) was a German painter and writer.

Life

Otto Boyer, son of the engineer Otto Boyer, studied after graduating from grammar school from 1894 to 1902 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , first in the elementary class of Heinrich Lauenstein and later as a master student of Eduard von Gebhardt . Study trips took Boyer to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, especially the Caucasus. In 1906 Boyer took part in the National Art Exhibition in Madrid and received the Order of Alfonso XII.

Otto Boyer was a member of the Düsseldorfer Künstlerverein Malkasten , the Freie Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstler and took part in the artistic-literary regulars' Rosenkranzchen , which existed from 1909 to 1911 in the wine bar of the same name in the old town . In Düsseldorf-Oberkassel he last lived in the property at Wildenbruchstrasse 94, left his house to the painter Adolf Münzer , and moved to Weimar in a house of the sculptor Hugo Lange. In Weimar he had joined the Literary Society.

Otto Boyer, only 38 years old, died in Jena and was cremated and buried in the local crematorium. His friend Wilhelm Hegeler gave the memorial speech . The German Schiller Foundation represented the chairman Oskar Bulle u. a. present.

Works

photos

Poster: The Lord of Papillon, for the operetta in 2 acts in the Malkasten, Friday, April 14th 1899
Summer evening on the Rhine near Düsseldorf
The horse trade , 1902

painting

Susanna in the bath , 1905, Art Museum Gelsenkirchen .

novel

Otto Boyer: Fuegos Fatuos. Fragment from the life of a fantasizing idler. Roman, published by Schmitz and Olbert, Düsseldorf, 1910

literature

Sabine Schroyen: Sources for the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. LVR archive books, Volume 24, Habelt, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1293-8 , p. 230.

Web links

Commons : Otto Boyer - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Otto Boyer , on RKD
A Düsseldorf painter-poet. In: Rhine and Düssel. No. 51, December 19, 1909, pp. 405-406.

Individual evidence

^ Elementary class of Heinrich Lauenstein: Otto Boyer, from Ueckendorf, beginning of studies October 15, 1894, born. June 21, 1874, painting subject , finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Rhineland Dept., BR 0004 (Düsseldorf government presidential office), No. 1562.
↑ Boyer, Otto, 1894–1902 KA (H. Lauenstein, E. v. Gebhardt) , artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (PDF, selection, as of November 2016).
↑ Review (PDF): I. Personal from the year 1096; July: painter Otto Boyer, Düsseldorf, the cross of the order Alfonso XII. the National Art Exhibition Madrid.
^ Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists, 1st Secretary Otto Boyer. In: Yearbook of Fine Arts. Willy Pastor (Ed.), 1909/1910.
↑ Jasmin Grande: The Rosary (1909-1911). 4. Sources for the Rosenkranzchen, Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte, accessed on June 25, 2019.
↑ Boyer, Otto, painter, Wildenbruchstr. 94. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1911. P. 123.
↑ Wildenbruchstrasse 94 (E. Boyer, Otto, Weimar), Münzer, Adolf, Professor. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1913. P. 382
↑ Am Horn 15b, E Lange, sculptor a. Wife (Am Horn 15a), Boyer, Otto, painter a. Writer. In: Address book Weimar. 1912, p. 192.
↑ Otto Boyer died: The cremation of the corpse of the Weimar painter and writer Otto Boyer, who died here, took place, as already briefly reported, on New Years afternoon in the local crematorium. In: Jenaische Zeitung: Amts-, Gemeinde- und Tageblatt from January 4, 1913. ( zs.thulb.uni-jena.de ).
↑ poster .
↑ Boyer, Otto - Sommerabend am Rhein near Düsseldorf (Saturday on the Rhine), undated , from the Volmer Collection, accessed on June 25, 2019.
↑ The horse trade. Cattle market on the Hunsrück. Oil on canvas. 74 x 109cm. Signed and dated lower left: Otto Boyer / 1902 , Van Ham, catalog, Alte Kunst, May 16, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Boyer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ückendorf
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 1912
Place of death	Jena

[1] Elementary class of Heinrich Lauenstein: Otto Boyer, from Ueckendorf, beginning of studies October 15, 1894, born. June 21, 1874, painting subject , finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Rhineland Dept., BR 0004 (Düsseldorf government presidential office), No. 1562.

[2] Boyer, Otto, 1894–1902 KA (H. Lauenstein, E. v. Gebhardt) , artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (PDF, selection, as of November 2016).

[3] Review (PDF): I. Personal from the year 1096; July: painter Otto Boyer, Düsseldorf, the cross of the order Alfonso XII. the National Art Exhibition Madrid.

[4] Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists, 1st Secretary Otto Boyer. In: Yearbook of Fine Arts. Willy Pastor (Ed.), 1909/1910.

[5] Jasmin Grande: The Rosary (1909-1911). 4. Sources for the Rosenkranzchen, Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte, accessed on June 25, 2019.

[6] Boyer, Otto, painter, Wildenbruchstr. 94. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1911. P. 123.

[7] Wildenbruchstrasse 94 (E. Boyer, Otto, Weimar), Münzer, Adolf, Professor. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1913. P. 382

[8] Am Horn 15b, E Lange, sculptor a. Wife (Am Horn 15a), Boyer, Otto, painter a. Writer. In: Address book Weimar. 1912, p. 192.

[9] Otto Boyer died: The cremation of the corpse of the Weimar painter and writer Otto Boyer, who died here, took place, as already briefly reported, on New Years afternoon in the local crematorium. In: Jenaische Zeitung: Amts-, Gemeinde- und Tageblatt from January 4, 1913. ( zs.thulb.uni-jena.de ).

[10] ster .

[11] Boyer, Otto - Sommerabend am Rhein near Düsseldorf (Saturday on the Rhine), undated , from the Volmer Collection, accessed on June 25, 2019.

[12] The horse trade. Cattle market on the Hunsrück. Oil on canvas. 74 x 109cm. Signed and dated lower left: Otto Boyer / 1902 , Van Ham, catalog, Alte Kunst, May 16, 2019.