Otto Günther-Naumburg
Otto Günther-Naumburg (born September 19, 1856 in Naumburg (Saale) , † June 21, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German architectural and landscape painter and university lecturer .
Life
Otto Günther-Naumburg was born on September 19, 1856 in Naumburg and was based in Berlin from 1861. From 1873 to 1877 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin with Albert Hertel and his successor Christian Wilberg .
His works include primarily architectural and landscape paintings. He took part in numerous exhibitions and won several awards. From 1877 he sent the Academy exhibition, from 1893 the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , from 1891 he was also represented in the Munich Glass Palace . Günther-Naumburg taught from 1892 at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg as a professor of watercolor painting . He died in Berlin on June 21, 1941.
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Otto Günther-Naumburg painted in a realistic style of the old masters with finely nuanced colors.
He created at least one diorama over Berlin for the Passage-Panoptikum, opened in 1888.
Pictures by Günther-Naumburg z. B. in the town hall of Dillingen / Saar . When the architect Wilhelm Franz built a new town hall in the up-and-coming industrial community of Dillingen between 1906 and 1908 in a mixture of neo-renaissance and art nouveau elements, he conveyed the picturesque furnishings of the council hall to Günther-Naumburg. Günther-Naumburg created the large-format oil paintings "The return of the Lords of Siersberg and Dillingen from the Belehungsfeier in the Liebfrauenkirche zu Trier on January 17, 1333" and "The old castle and the Dillinger hut in 1909", at the bottom of the picture in both paintings he integrated dynastic coats of arms.
Further decorative wall paintings were created for the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin, the administration building of the General Knappschaftsverein in Bochum and the Potsdam City Hall .
literature
- Günther-Naumburg, Otto . 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 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Günther-Naumburg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ digitized course catalogs of the Technische Hochschule Berlin 1874–1950 ( memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ markt.de
- ↑ Otto Günther-Naumburg on the Sparkasse Burgenlandkreis website, accessed on April 23, 2014.
- ^ Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy: Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899) (dissertation), transcript, Bielefeld 2007, p. 108 ( [1] restricted preview).
- ↑ A. Jakob: The Siersburg in the course of the centuries. Saarlouis 1958, p. 37.
- ↑ Gertrud Schmidt: 100 years of the historical meeting room, old town hall Dillingen. Dillingen 2008, p. 11 f.
- ^ Dillingen Art Association (ed.): Art Guide Dillingen / Saar. Saarbrücken / Dillingen 1999, p. 17.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Günther-Naumburg, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Günther, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naumburg (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1941 |
| Place of death | Berlin |