Otto Flecken
Karl Otto Leonard Flecken (born April 11, 1860 in Düsseldorf - Pempelfort , † April 1, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German landscape and vedute painter , illustrator and poster artist .
Life
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Since 1869 at the latest, Flecken lived with his parents in Frankfurt am Main. There he was a student of the sculptor Gustav Kaupert from 1875 to 1877 . Then he switched to painting . From 1877 he attended the Städelschule under Heinrich Hasselhorst , which he left in 1882 "in silence". Between 1886 and 1889 he traveled to Norway and painted Nordic landscapes. From 1885 to 1901 he worked as an illustrator for the "Kleine Presse", a city newspaper published in Frankfurt. On October 3, 1887, he married Auguste Matthies from Frankfurt and moved with her into an apartment in the house of his in-laws. From 1886 he had a summer house with her in Oberursel im Taunus , where he took part in social life and became a member of the shooting club. In 1911 the couple divorced. On September 16, 1912, Flecken married Mathilde Ellmann for the second time.
literature
- Flecken, Otto . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 84 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bernd Ochs: The Frankfurt painter Otto Flecken and his time in Oberursel . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte und Heimatkunde Oberursel eV , Issue 53 (2014), pp. 1–11 ( PDF ).
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| SURNAME | Flecken, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flecken, Karl Otto Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and vedute painter, illustrator and poster artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Düsseldorf - Pempelfort |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1925 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |