Otto Keck (painter)

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Otto Keck (born March 20, 1873 in Oberstaufen ; † April 8, 1948 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) developed from an innkeeper and butcher to a painter of the Allgäu .

Life

Otto Keck was born in 1873 as the son of master butcher and innkeeper Peter Paul Keck and his wife Theresia. Until 1886 he attended the elementary school in Oberstaufen, after the family moved to Blaichach, in addition to working in his parents' butcher's and restaurant business, he continued to attend the local Sunday and holiday school, where his talent for drawing was noticed. But he should take his father's path professionally. His family came to Weiler im Allgäu via Untermaiselstein.

During his military service (1895–1897) in Munich, he got to know the large picture galleries and exhibitions. He then became a Forsteleve with Count Rechberg, where he exchanged letters with Franz von Defregger . In 1902 his mother died, who within the family encouraged her son's artistic talent through recognition.

In 1904 the family took over a wine tavern in Überlingen , where Otto Keck was intensively involved in drawing and painting. He married Kreszensia Mauch, son Otto Paul was born. In 1906 they returned to Goßholz (now part of Lindenberg im Allgäu ) in the Allgäu and took over the "Golden Eagle". Since his wife took over the work in the inn, Keck was able to devote himself fully to painting and earn income from the sale of pictures. He received a visit from the famous painters Hans Best and ET Compton . In 1934, the city of Immenstadt gave him a piece of land as a gift and in 1935 a house, where he stayed until his death in 1948.

Lindenberg and Immenstadt have each named a street after Otto Keck.

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Keck's work included portraits , anonymous Allgäu character heads, but also as commissioned work , such as the picture of the mayor of Kempten, Councilor Adolf Horchler , and other personalities. It was with them that he became best known. He created views of his Allgäu landscape. Flowers with objects were the content of still lifes . He condensed everyday situations in his genre pictures . He drew postcards for Weiler, Oberstdorf and others, created advertising images for companies, e.g. B. for hat manufacturing in Lindenberg and the dairy industry. The shooting targets are also part of his oeuvre.

“Otto Keck's art is not that of an innovator. It is mostly based on the widely appreciated style of realistically painting contemporaries. ... As a true autodidact, Otto Keck acquired his painterly qualities through literature on painting techniques and by copying reproductions. … Very often, however, a certain autodidact… has its special charm. "

Exhibitions

  • 1916, 1921 and 1924 one picture each in the Glaspalast in Munich
  • 1935 Spring exhibition in the Palais Herzog-Karl-Theodor in Munich with 4 pictures by Pflug
  • 1935 Summer exhibition in the Palais Herzog-Karl-Theodor in Munich 1 image: It is definitely in God's advice
  • 1940 Art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich with the picture floor plan

Memorial exhibitions

  • 1949–1950 in the Allgäuer Heimatmuseum and in the Kornhaus in Kempten with 44 pictures
  • 1973 in Immenstadt with 15 plants
  • 1981 Group exhibition in Immenstadt, 200 years of portraits from Immenstadt painters
  • 1983 together with son Paul Keck in the Kornhausmuseum in Weiler with 37 pictures by Otto Keck
  • 1987 Allgäuer Heimatmuseum Kempten in the Marstall with catalog

literature

  • Friedrich Düsel: Allgäu peasant and landscape painter . In: Westermanns Monatshefte, Vol. 136, I, Heft 813, special print from the 68th year (Sept. 1923 to Aug. 1924), pp. 228–241 m. Fig.
  • Tilly Lindner: Otto Keck, the Allgäu portrait painter . In: Hochvogel 1st year, No. 38, 1924, pp. 297-300 m. Fig.
  • Friedrich H. Hacker: At the Allgäu painter O. Keck . In: Heimatkunde. Supplement to the Allgäuer Tagblatt 10th vol. 23, June 12, 1925, p. 141
  • Tilly Lindner: Otto Keck . In: Heimatkunde. Supplement to the Lindenberger Tagblatt 38th vol. 70, March 26, 1927
  • Tilly Lindner: Allgäuer Land und Leut ' In: Alpenfreund, 9th year, issue 13, July 1928, pp. 348–352 m. Fig.
  • M. Thumann: A visit to the painter Keck in Goßholz , In: Westallgäuer Heimatblätter, 3rd vol., No. 9, September 1928, p. 63 f.
  • Tilly Lindner: Otto Keck. An introduction to his life and work , Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund new episode No. 30, Kempten 1929, m. Fig.
  • Max Förderreuther: The Allgäu Alps. Country and people . Munich 1929, p. 275 f.
  • Heinrich Engelbrecht: The eagle host of Goßholz . In: Westfälische Volkszeitung, January 3, 1930
  • Ludwig Scheller: Adoration. A picture at the turn of the year . In: Heimatkunde. Supplement to Tagblatt Volume 42, No. 31, February 7, 1931
  • Friedrich H. Hacker: Otto Keck at Kemptener Kunstfreunde . In: Weiler Zeitung, Nov. 28, 1933
  • Max Förderreuther: Otto Keck and his peasant models . In: Bunte Blätter ans dem Allgäuer Volksleben, Kempten 1933, pp. 86–88
  • Hans Ferdinand Breilinger: Five painters create a landscape. The Oberallgäu seen by artists . In: The beautiful Allgäu, 3rd year No. 19, pp. 254–260 m. Fig.
  • Ludwig Scheller: A wanderer's thoughts in Otto Keck's farmhouse parlor in Goßholz . In: Das Schöne Allgäu, 4th year, No. 3, 1936, p. 40
  • Fritz Heinrich Hacker: Otto Keck and his models . In: Das Schöne Allgäu, 6th year, No. 14, July 15, 1938, p. 213 fm Fig.
  • Ders .: From the Swabian world. Swabia in the German Art Exhibition 1940 . In: Schwabenland, 7th year 1940, pp. 309-320 m. Fig.
  • The Westallgäuer: Two artist portraits - Maximilian Bentele and Otto Keck . In: 50 years of the city of Lindenberg. Special supplement, Festschrift 1964, pp. 22–24 m. Fig.
  • Ludwig Sinz: Painter Otto Keck . From the series: Lit, die wo i know ho. In: Der Westallgäuer, April 8, 1968
  • From the Oberallgäu: He painted farmers and woodcutters . The Allgäu landscape and portrait painter Otto Keck on his 100th birthday on March 20th. 10/11 March 1973
  • Der Westallgäuer: He breathed life into his pictures . March 13, 1973, m. Fig.
  • Thilo Ludewig: Oberstaufen. Home book of the market in Oberstaufen and the former imperial rule of Staufen . Weiler 1983, p. 202
  • Thomas Weiß: Otto Keck 1873–1948, an Allgäu painter . Exhibition catalog, Kempten 1987, 151 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto-Keck-Straße in Lindenberg ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gmv-lindenberg.de
  2. ↑ Thomas Weiß, Kempten 1987, pp. 10-11
  3. ↑ Thomas Weiß: Otto Keck 1873-1948, an Allgäu painter . Exhibition catalog, Kempten 1987, 151 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Cheeky, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstaufen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1948
Place of death Immenstadt in the Allgäu