Otto Eckmann

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Otto Eckmann on a painting by Lovis Corinth

Otto Eckmann (born November 19, 1865 in Hamburg , † June 11, 1902 in Badenweiler ) was a German painter , graphic artist and typographer of Art Nouveau . He used the monogram "EO".

life and work

Eckmann completed a commercial apprenticeship and then studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and the Kunstgewerbeschule in Nuremberg (today the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg ). He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1883 . Not without success he worked as a painter until 1894. His painting style was that of a Pre-Raphaelite .

Eckmann later turned to graphic design and drafts for handicrafts, especially for textile embroidery.

Eckmann grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Eckmann was inspired by the work of Walter Crane and was one of the main representatives of the "floral" direction of Art Nouveau . At first he devoted himself to landscape painting , but later worked mainly as a designer and graphic artist. He created title and ornaments for magazines Pan and youth as well as the logo of the S. Fischer Verlag . As an employee of the Scherrebek weaving school , he created "one of the heraldic images of Art Nouveau" with the wall hanging Five Swans .

Example of the Eckmann font

On behalf of Karl Klingspor , the then head of the Rudhard type foundry in Offenbach , Eckmann drew a new alphabet for letter printing in 1899 . With this he created the Eckmann typeface named after him , which is still the most widely used Art Nouveau typeface today.

Around 1902 he designed collector's pictures for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck for a fee of 1000 marks.

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg there is a gravestone for Otto Eckmann at grid square T 2 (south of the funeral forum ).

The Eckmannsweg in Hamburg-Barmbek is named after him.

  • Cover of the magazine Jugend , designed by Otto Eckmann, 1896

  • Forest pond

  • Night Heron , woodcut 1896

  • Five swans , 1897

  • Blé

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Otto Eckmann. Registration book entry. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Elke von Radziewsky : German weaving. In: Die Zeit , December 27, 1985.
  3. ↑ Detlef Lorenz : Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01220-X .
  4. ↑ Celebrity Graves

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personal data
SURNAME Eckmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES EO (monogram)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1902
Place of death Badenweiler