Otto Dörr
Otto Dörr (born December 3, 1831 in Ludwigslust , † November 18, 1868 in Dresden ; full name: Otto Erich Friedrich August Dörr ) was a German portrait , architecture, genre , animal and landscape painter .
Life
Otto Dörr was born in 1831 as the son of the court attendant Konrad Dörr and grew up with six siblings. Already before 1845 he received lessons in drawing from the engraver Hoffmann in Ludwigslust. Around 1845 this was followed by drawing lessons with the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court painter Friedrich Christian Georg Lenthe in Ludwigslust. From 1850 to 1852 Dörr studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts and under Carl Steffeck and Franz Krüger in Berlin.
From 1852 to 1856 Dörr stayed in Paris. There he was a student of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps . In 1855 he took part in the world exhibition in Paris with the work View into a dye works .
After his return he worked as a portrait painter in Ludwigslust from 1856 before moving to Berlin in 1860 and from there to Dresden in 1862. On December 4, 1861, Otto Dörr married Bertha Staudinger, a relative of the economist Johann Heinrich von Thünen . The couple had three children. In 1867 he stayed with his painter colleague Julius Scholtz again in Paris for a few months and frequented Léon Bonnat's studio .
Works (selection)
- Self-portrait , around 1851/52, private property
- View of a dye works , around 1855, whereabouts unknown
- Four interiors of a dye works in Fontainebleau , sketches, whereabouts unknown, most recently: private property Wilhelm Gentz
- Frau Schöps, the artist's sister , around 1855/1860, 105 × 84.5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, inv. No. 1225
- Two landscapes from the "Fontainebleau Forest" , before 1857, whereabouts unknown
- Three white horses with French dragoons , 1856, last: private property Bad Reichenhall
- Bridal portrait of Bertha Staudinger (his future wife), 1860, whereabouts unknown
- Interior view of the church of Warnemünde , 1864, oil / canvas, 65.5 × 79 cm, unfinished, Hamburger Kunsthalle, inv. No. 1226
- Current study of Bonnat's studio , 1867/68, last: private property Bad Reichenhall
- In Léon Bonnat's painter's studio in Paris , 1867, oil / canvas, 59 × 81 cm, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, inv. No. 2449.
- Mecklenburg farmhouse floorboard , around 1863, oil / canvas, 88 × 117 cm, 2014 at auction house Stahl, Hamburg, there as: Everyday life in the farmhouse
- Mecklenburgische Dorfstrasse (motif from the village of Biestow near Rostock)
- Mecklenburg farmhouse parlor
- Mecklenburg farmhouse cuisine
- Lauenburg farmhouse
Exhibitions
- 1861–1867: Participation in the exhibitions of the Dresden Art Academy
- 1906: Exhibition of the century of German art in the National Gallery in Berlin
- 1934: The portrait in Mecklenburg in the Rostock Municipal Art and Antiquity Museum
- 1935: Complete exhibition of the pictures by the Mecklenburg painter Otto Dörr (1831–1868), Kunstverein zu Rostock: paintings, drawings, watercolors, pastels, in the Rostock Municipal Art and Antiquity Museum
literature
- Sylva van der Heyden: Dörr, Otto (Doerr, Otto Erich Friedrich August). In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-035006-7 .
- Grete Grewolls: Dörr, Otto. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 , pp. 2177-2178. (with portrait)
- Hela Baudis: Otto Dörr. In: North German draftsmen from four centuries: Kupferstichkabinett, State Museum Schwerin. Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-68106-110-6 , pp. 122-123.
- Otto Dörr . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 28, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22768-X , p. 255.
- Ernst Sigismund : Doerr, Otto . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 372–373 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Dörr, Otto. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, pp. 235-236 ( archive.org ).
- Friedrich Schlie : Descriptive directory of the works of more recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
Web links
- Literature about Otto Dörr in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Otto Dörr in the state bibliography MV
- Feodor Wehl : Obituary to Otto Dörr , SLUB Dresden (digitized version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Painting by Otto Dörr. (No longer available online.) By Auktionshaus Stahl, archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d work described in: F. Schlie: Descriptive Directory ... (see literature)
- ^ Exhibition of German art from the period 1775–1875 in the Royal National Gallery, Berlin . Catalog of paintings AZ. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1906, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
- ^ Oscar Gehrig : The Mecklenburg painter Otto Dörr. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Volume 11 (1935), pp. 24–29 (PDF; 5.1 MB) (digitized version)
- ^ Complete exhibition of the pictures by the Mecklenburg painter Otto Dörr. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Volume 11 (1935), p. 103 (PDF; 1.15 MB) lbmv.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dörr, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dörr, Otto Erich Friedrich August (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1831 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1868 |
Place of death | Dresden |