Otto Herbig (painter)

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Otto Herbig (born December 31, 1889 in Dorndorf ; † June 13, 1971 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) was a German painter and lithographer of the "Brücke" expressionism . His daughter Sophie Frenzel also became a painter. She worked from 1952 to 1957.

life and work

Since 1900 in Jena , Herbig had his first drawing lessons with Erich Kuithan at the Carl Zeiss School there . From 1909 to 1911 he attended the academy in Munich. From 1911 to 1912 he was a student of Lovis Corinth in Berlin and Albin Egger-Lienz . From 1912 to 1913 he studied at the art school in Weimar, where he met Rudolf Wacker , Ernst Penzoldt and Otto Pankok. From 1914 to 1918 he performed medical services in France and Flanders ( Ostend ), together with Erich Heckel , Anton Kerschbaumer , and Max Kaus . It was there that he met James Ensor . In 1919 he moved to Berlin and married his first wife, who died in 1926. He made friends with Otto Mueller and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , with whom he had joint exhibitions. In 1928 his son Tyl died; Herbig married for the second time that year, namely Elsbeth (Elisabeth) Mueller (née Lübke), Otto Mueller's second wife, who was divorced. After several stays in Italy, he moved back to Berlin in 1933/34. After the end of the war, he received a professorship at the State University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar in 1946 . In 1955 he was retired; he lived and worked in his house in Kleinmachnow near Berlin until he moved from the GDR to Weilheim in Upper Bavaria in 1963 , where he died at the age of 81.

Herbig painted landscapes, pieces of flowers, pictures of children and portraits as oil paintings, but above all in bright expressionist pastel colors. His works include “Little Madonna”, “Boy at the Christmas Table” and the work “Blossom Branch”. His work has been exhibited in the Berlin National Gallery , the Brücke Museum Berlin and the Lübeck Museum , among others .

Otto Herbig was a member of the German Association of Artists .

literature

  • Otto Herbig. Publication by the German Academy of the Arts. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1959
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): Otto Herbig: paintings, pastels, lithographs. Exhibition. National Gallery, Berlin 1962.
  • Otto Herbig. Art sheets from the Nierendorf Gallery. No. 42, introduction by Reinhard Müller-Mehlis, Berlin 1978
  • Michel Hebecker (ed.): Magic of the little things. Otto Herbig. Weimar 1999
  • "Around us is a day of creation" From the artist colony to today. , Ed. Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop , Ahrenshoop 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816136-1-2 , p. 164f.
  • Herbig, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 425 .
  • Anette Brunner : Herbig, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 119.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Herbig In: oltmanns.de ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), (accessed on November 6, 2019)
  2. ↑ Herbig, Otto In: exilarchiv.de , (accessed on November 6, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b Herbig, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 425 .
  4. ↑ Otto Herbig In: eart.de , (accessed on November 6, 2019)
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Herbig, Otto ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 6, 2019)


personal data
SURNAME Herbig, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorndorf
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1971
Place of death Weilheim in Upper Bavaria