Otto Kreyher
Otto Kreyher (born June 2, 1836 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † May 3, 1905 in Breslau ) was a German painter .
Otto Kreyher began studying painting with his father. From 1850 he studied painting in Breslau under Heinrich König , then from 1853 at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin under the set designer Karl Wilhelm Gropius and later became his employee.
For several years he worked as a drawing teacher in Berlin. In 1859 he settled in Breslau and devoted himself mainly to portraiture. Among other things, he created the portrait of the poet Karl von Holtei in 1867 .
Until 1945 many of his pictures belonged to the collections of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, after the war some of his works were taken to other museums. A picture “Sellers of plaster figures” was donated by Carla Müller to the Muzeum Lubuskie in his hometown in 2007 on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary.
literature
- Kreyher, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 524-525 .
- Silesian Museum of Fine Arts, Wroclaw. Catalog of paintings and sculptures. Breslau 1926, p.
- Silesian monthly books. Issue 4, April 1930, p. 143 ( dbc.wroc.pl ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kreyher, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg on the Warta |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1905 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |