Otto things
Otto Dinger (born August 25, 1860 in Düsseldorf , † January 22, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German portrait , genre and landscape painter as well as a graphic artist and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Dinger, son of the Düsseldorf painter and copper engraver Fritz Dinger and his wife Maria, née Nohl (1830–1915), studied from 1878 to 1883 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was trained in portrait and genre subjects. Like his father, he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . In 1885 he went to the United States . There he lived for a few years as a panorama painter in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . In 1889 he returned to Germany and settled in Charlottenburg near Berlin. From 1890 he studied with Karl Köpping at the Berlin Academy . In 1891 he exhibited for the first time in Berlin. At that time his work consisted of oil paintings, engravings and watercolors . At the end of the 19th century he made a trip to Brazil . In 1899 he had a solo exhibition there in Porto Alegre . From 1904 to 1911, Dinger was represented with etchings at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
Works (selection)
- Windmill in Milwaukee , 1888
- Evening on the Fox River , 1888
- Resting field workers in a wide landscape near Porto Alegre , 1898
- Farmer with slaves and carts of oxen in the field , 1899
- Laundresses on the banks of Riacho , 1899
- Winter in Berlin , after 1900
literature
- Things, 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. 303 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Things, Otto. In: Andreas Beyer , Bénédicte Savoy , Wolf Tegethoff , Eberhard König : General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, Volume 27, p. 470.
Web links
- Otto Dinger , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Otto Dinger , auction results on the portal artnet .de
- Milwaukee Panorama Artists with Panorama , historical photo of panorama painters (1886, Otto Dinger top right), website in the portal wisconsinhistory.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on August 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Things, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre and landscape painter as well as graphic artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1928 |
| Place of death | Berlin |