Otto Kirchner (painter)
Otto Kirchner (born March 15, 1887 in Eckartshausen (Werneck) , † 1960 in Munich ) was a German portrait and genre painter .
Kirchner began his artistic studies in 1908/09 at a private drawing school in Düsseldorf, continued his education in Italy in 1910/11 and finally studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1912 to 1914 with Martin Feuerstein , the painter responsible at the time for the religious subject . After 1918, Kirchner mainly painted small-format genre pictures such as an old man reading a letter with a pen behind his ear, a portrait of a seated farmer in traditional costume , a cardinal reading or a wine drinker with a cigar . His paintings were u. a. exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich genre painter with Werneck roots. Main-Post , December 15, 2008, accessed on March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th century : Achmann-Kursell, 1993, 1993, p. 463
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| SURNAME | Kirchner, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eckartshausen (Werneck) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1960 |
| Place of death | Munich |