Otto Edmund Günther
Otto Edmund Günther (born September 30, 1838 in Halle an der Saale , † April 20, 1884 in Weimar ) was a German genre painter and illustrator .
Life
Otto Edmund Günther studied painting from 1858 to 1861 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Christian Köhler , Heinrich Mücke , Karl Müller and Rudolf Wiegmann his teachers. From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar with Arthur von Ramberg , Friedrich Preller the Elder and Ferdinand Pauwels . After graduating, he stayed in Weimar. From 1876 to 1880 he worked as a teacher at the Königsberg Art Academy , after which he returned to Weimar due to illness. Lovis Corinth was one of his students .
Otto Edmund Günther initially created great historical compositions and later devoted himself to genre painting. His pictures show the life of rural Thuringian people.
literature
- Günther, Otto Edmund . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 210 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Nineteenth special exhibition in the Royal National Gallery in Berlin. Works by Karl Graeb, Otto Günther and Albert Berg. National Gallery, ES Mettler and Son, Berlin 1884, pp. 13-14 u. 107–149, Otto Günther, biography a. Works , accessed September 11, 2018.
Web links
- Otto Edmund Günther , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Biography in the portal liveauctioneers.com
- Biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de
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| SURNAME | Günther, Otto Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1884 |
| Place of death | Weimar |