Otto Friedrich Wolf

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Otto Wolf - Christ and the adulteress
Otto Wolf - The baptism
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Otto Friedrich Wolf , pseudonym: Wolf-Oschatz (born February 8, 1855 in Oschatz ; † June 23, 1940 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Otto Wolf was born in Oschatz as the son of the carpenter painter Wolf. He had three brothers and two sisters. At the age of 14 Otto Wolf came to the Meissen porcelain factory as a flower painter. A short time later he began his artistic training at the Dresden Academy as a student of Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels . Kaiser Wilhelm I bought the picture from Florian Geyer and Wolf received a scholarship abroad. In 1879 he went to Paris to study with William Adolphe Bouguereau . On November 4, 1882, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under number 4280 and studied with Ludwig von Löfftz.

Wolf found his political home in the NSDAP , of which he was a founding member. He died on June 23, 1940 as a result of a stroke . The cremation took place on June 26, 1940 in Munich.

The exhibition "Bildwerke Oschatzer Künstler" in the auditorium of the Hans Schemm School from February 22 to March 17, 1941 showed, among other things, 21 paintings and studies by him.

Services

In 1886 he created his greatest work, Christ and the Adulteress , which received critical acclaim and was printed in magazines.

Works

  • "The Baptism" (exhibited in Dresden in 1894)
  • "The Novice" (exhibited in Munich in 1888)
  • "Bange Stunden" (exhibited in Munich in 1890)
  • “The Head of Medusa” 48 × 54 cm oil on canvas;
  • "Gypsy Girl" 71 × 61 cm oil on canvas
  • in the holdings of the Bavarian State Painting Collections are:
    • “The Homecoming” No. 9503
    • "Interior" No. 10149

further reading

  • Munich painters in the 19th century , fourth volume, Saffer-Zwengauer, Bruckmann Munich, 1983, p. 399
  • Die Kunst für Alle , Friedrich Pecht , first year, Publishing House for Art and Science, Munich 1886, p. 270
  • The art for everyone , Friedrich Pecht, third year, publishing house for art and science, Munich 1888, p. 298
  • General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Volume 36, p. 215
  • The Oschatz charitable organization , June 26, 1940
  • 2nd sheet of the Oschatzer Tageblatt und Anzeiger , June 26, 1940
  • 1st sheet for the Oschatzer Kreiszeitung , January – March 1941

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Otto Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf-Oschatz, Otto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1940
Place of death Munich