Otto Heinsius
Otto Heinsius (born June 25, 1892 in Kontopp , Lower Silesia , † January 29, 1976 in Bremen ) was a German painter .
Life
Heinsius was the son of a doctor. After the early death of their father, the family moved to Wroclaw . Here he attended high school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. In evening classes he began his training as an artist with a sculptor, an etcher and the painter Eduard Kaempffer at the Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau . In the First World War he served as a soldier. From 1923 he lived in Erdmannsdorf (Riesengebirge) and continued his artistic training. Then he worked as a painter. In 1935 he became an officer in the Wehrmacht and in World War II he fought in France, Belgium and the USSR. He drew over his impressions.
He had been stationed in Bremen since 1944 and stayed there after the war. He created a photo documentation of the destroyed Bremen. He was now mainly a landscape painter with depictions around and in Worpswede as well as about the construction of the Klöcknerwerke in Bremen. He also lived in Worpswede for a while.
In 1957 and 1972 his paintings, watercolors and drawings were exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bremen . Also u. a. his pictures have been exhibited in Munich, Berlin and Brussels.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 , p. ...
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petra Hölscher: The Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Breslau. Paths to an art school 1791–1932. Ludwig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-933598-50-8 , p. 458.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinsius, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kontopp , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1976 |
| Place of death | Bremen |