Otto Keitel

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Carl Adolph Otto Keitel (born September 15, 1862 in Braunschweig , † August 3, 1902 in Pasing ) was a German animal painter and etcher .

Life

Keitel, son of a master tailor, attended a grammar school, the trade school and the technical college in Braunschweig. Here he received lessons from Karl Friedrich Adolf Nickol . He then first learned at the Xylographic Art Institute Brend'amour & Cie. by Richard Brend'amour the woodcut . At the same time, he attended Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the school year 1883/1884 . He only stayed briefly in Düsseldorf because he wanted to become an animal painter and this genre was not used for training there. In 1885 he switched to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , where the painter Albert Brendel introduced him to animal painting, and in particular here he learned the precision of representation. His pictures from this time are described as having a "cloudy dirty gray color ... as a basic mood", which did not meet the buyer's taste. Color was only brought closer to him in Karlsruhe. From 1890 to 1894 he attended the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe under Hermann Baisch . The latter's untimely death in 1894 prompted him to become a student of the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel , whom he followed to Munich in 1895 to work in his studio . He perfected the art of etching with Peter Halm . He was particularly known for his etchings, and some works were purchased for the Pinakothek and the private gallery of Prince Regent Luitpold .

He continuously supplied the exhibitions at the Munich Glass Palace with oil paintings and etchings of animals. However, at the turn of the century, interest in his work waned.

When he received an order to help design a large panorama picture for a fixed monthly salary of 300 to 500 marks in 1902 "after years of starvation", he suffered a heart attack "out of joy" and died at the age of 39. He had been married to Lisbeth Klappenbach from Weimar since 1890 and had five children.

Works (selection)

  • Etching: Horses in the pasture discover a painter's chair and Paint box 1886 (Weimar)
  • Summer morning Munich anniversary exhibition 1888
  • Midday rest Vienna annual exhibition 1892
  • At the end of the market, 6th international art exhibition in Munich, 1892

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Eitel, Otto 1883–1884 Art Academy with Heinrich Lauenstein; Private lessons with Richard Brend'amour ( smkp.de PDF), on smkp.de, accessed on July 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Johannes Leitzen : Otto Keitel †. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin . Year 1902, No. 9, pp. 101-102 (obituary, text archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser : History of the great. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival. Verlag Braun, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 163, No. 447 ( digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de ).
  4. ^ Catalog of the exhibition of the paintings from the private gallery of Prince Regent Luitpold. Munich 1913.
personal data
SURNAME Keitel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keitel, Carl Adolph Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal painter and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1902
Place of death Pasing