Otto Hartloff

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Otto Hartloff (born February 25, 1909 in Rheydt ; † February 24, 1977 in Kusel ) was a German art teacher, art teacher and artist.

education and profession

After completing school in Odenkirchen and Rheydt, Hartloff studied chemistry, biology and sport in Göttingen and Cologne. After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in Münstermaifeld in 1941 and in Kusel from 1951, where he also worked as an art teacher.

Artistic creation

Even during his school days, he created pictures using a wide variety of techniques, based on the work of Rhenish Expressionism. A drawing teacher at that time Hartloff recognized his talent. Already during his school days he used the studio of his older painting friend Wilhelm Jansen-Joerde , who gave him further impulses. Under the guidance of Julius Paul Junghanns , he attended courses in life drawing and painting during his student days. He participated in numerous exhibitions, including a. in joint exhibitions with Helmuth Macke , a cousin of August Macke . In Münstermaifeld and Kusel he received orders in the field of portrait and landscape painting. In the post-war period and primarily in the 1970s, he dealt with abstract painting.

Hartloff fell ill with tuberculosis, which led to long hospital stays and two longer stays in a sanatorium in Davos. He processed the formative impressions of the Alpine world as well as the psychological distress of a sanatorium world. a. in the cycle 'Davos Elegy'.

In the last time before his death, Hartloff dealt intensively with watercolor paintings on a wide variety of Japanese papers in rich coloristics. The tension in his painterly work ranges from expressive landscape paintings to strict compositional works, portraits and landscapes that can be assigned to realism, to abstract and ornamental works in rich coloristics. Watercolor and oil painting were preferred, even if numerous study sheets were created as drawings, woodcuts and etchings.

Works by the artist are in both public and private ownership.

family

Otto Hartloff is the father of the Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Jochen Hartloff , daughter Elgin and the President of the Rhineland-Palatinate a. D. Volker Hartloff .

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personal data
SURNAME Hartloff, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1977
Place of death Kusel