Otto Richard Bossert

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Richard Bossert

Otto Richard Bossert (born April 23, 1874 in Heidelberg , † January 14, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German graphic artist and painter . His early works are based on Max Klinger .

Life

Otto Richard Bossert attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1889 to 1894 before moving to Cologne in 1896 and to Leipzig that same year. In Leipzig he studied book trade, illustration and advertising graphics at the Royal Art Academy and School of Applied Arts . He became a decoration and pattern draftsman as well as a drawing teacher. He also dealt with the design of book covers, engravings for bookbinders and advertising graphics. In addition to his commissioned work, he created numerous graphics, but also oil paintings. His studio was in the Leipziger Künstlerhaus . His early graphic work was influenced by Max Klinger . The figurative subject predominates in his etchings and woodcuts .

In 1903 he won the nude competition announced by Max Klinger at the Leipzig Art Association . A study trip took him to Italy . From 1904 he taught woodcut and photomechanical drawing at the Royal Academy of Art and Applied Arts in Leipzig. In 1914 he received the Villa Romana Prize

Memberships

Works (selection)

  • 1901: Music Regulations (cover)
  • 1901: JS Bach (drawing)
  • 1901: St. Thomas School in Leipzig (pen and ink drawing)
  • 1903: Exhibition of the Leipziger Künstlerbund (poster)
  • 1905: Portrait of Hans Burckhardt (oil on canvas)
  • 1908: old man at work sitting in front of a shed (woodcut)
  • around 1910: Cows and sheep grazing at a windmill
  • 1910: Lucas Cranach (wood engraving)
  • 1910: Harvesting (colored drawing)
  • 1911: At the window (drawing for calendar sheet)
  • 1912: Petersstrasse to the fair ( gouache )
  • 1912: Standing female nude with 3 black swans (wood engraving)
  • 1913: Breton fishermen hauling in nets (color drawing on canvas)
  • 1913: Old Theater (pen drawing)
  • 1913: Shepherdess (copper engraving)
  • 1914: Reading monk (woodcut, draft of a postcard)
  • 1914: Woman reading (woodcut, draft of a postcard)
  • 1914: Old woman on a chair (charcoal drawing)
  • 1914: harvest (charcoal drawing)
  • 1916: couple (drypoint)
  • around 1917: War emergency donation for Leipzig (woodcut)
  • 1918: Shepherd with cows (lithograph)
  • 1918: Summer (copper engraving)
  • 1918: autumn (copper engraving)
  • 1918: Landscape with a tree in the foreground (etching)
  • 1919: Landscape (etching)
  • 1919: harvest (woodcut)
  • 1919: Land (series of eight etchings)

Image examples

  • Hans Burckhardt
    (oil on canvas)

  • Music regulations
    (cover design)

  • Petersstrasse to the fair (gouache)

  • Pair
    (drypoint)

  • War emergency donation Leipzig (woodcut)

  • At the window
    (calendar sheet drawing)

student

literature

  • Annelies Hübscher: Bossert, Otto Richard . In: Helmut Bähring, Kurt Rüddiger: Lexicon Buchstadt Leipzig. From the beginning to 1990 , Taucha: Tauchaer Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0 , p. 37.
  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 61 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Richard Bossert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ansgar Scholz, Annekatrin Merren: Forgotten Avantgarde. Künstlerhaus and Nikischplatz. Leipziger Blätter , special issue, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-95415-055-7 , p. 50
  2. ↑ Hartmut Vollmer: The sun dances to death in red shoes. Poetry by expressionist female poets. Igel Verlag , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86815-526-6 , p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Bossert, Otto Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1919
Place of death Leipzig