Otto Ferdinand Probst

Otto Ferdinand Probst (born May 13, 1865 in Breslau ; † 1923 on the Baltic Sea ) was a German graphic artist and architect .

Live and act

He studied at the art school in Breslau and later at the art academy (1902) and the technical university in Munich . In 1900 he worked as a senior teacher at the Royal Building Trade School in Wroclaw.

He published a book with views of Augsburg and around 1900 a collection of his drawings from the years 1898 to 1899 Wroclaw's picturesque architectures , in which architecturally interesting buildings from Wroclaw are depicted with pencil and pen and photographs. He mainly produced etchings , especially cityscapes (including Lindau, Munich, Nuremberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber) as well as several landscape views of the Giant Mountains.

Publications

Augsburg in pictures and words. A selection of architectures and picturesque cityscapes . 70 plates edited by OF Probst and August Mülleger. Text by Th. Ruess . Lampart & Comp., Augsburg [around 1896].
Wroclaw's picturesque architecture. Accompanying text by Hans Lutsch , in 10 deliveries (1899–1900), printed by Johannes Beyer, Zittau, self-published, Breslau 1900 ( dbc.wroc.pl ).
- Book advertisement: Wroclaw's picturesque architecture. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 20, No. 25, March 31, 1900, pp. 153–154 (images, text archive - Internet Archive ).
- Book advertisement: Wroclaw's picturesque architecture. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 20, No. 79, October 6, 1900, pp. 483–484 (illustration, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Examples of etchings
Barbarakirche in Wroclaw
Christophori Church in Wroclaw
Powder Tower in Lindau
View of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
View of Kapellenplatz with fountain in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Klingentor in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

literature

Probst, Otto Ferdinand . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 226 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Probst, Otto Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 412 .

Remarks

^ Entry in the matriculation database : Probst, Otto, from Kolberg, age 37, entered April 5, 1902, etching class.
^ So on the title page of Wroclaw's painterly architecture . 1900; there also referred to as an architect.

Web links

Commons : Otto Ferdinand Probst - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Probst, Otto Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Probst, Otto F .; Probst, OF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw ( Poland )
DATE OF DEATH	1923

[1] Entry in the matriculation database : Probst, Otto, from Kolberg, age 37, entered April 5, 1902, etching class.

[2] So on the title page of Wroclaw's painterly architecture . 1900; there also referred to as an architect.