Otto Seitz (painter)

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Otto Seitz
Grave of Otto Seitz in the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Otto Seitz (born September 3, 1846 in Munich ; † March 13, 1912 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Seitz was a student of Carl Theodor von Piloty and Hermann Anschütz . As a professor at the Munich Art Academy , he shaped numerous important artists through his teaching, including a. Rudolf Köselitz and Heinrich Kiel . Otto Seitz was buried in the old south cemetery in Munich. (Grave field 7 - row 5 - seat 56) Location .

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Many of his paintings depict people, landscapes and flower still lifes. In works with titles such as drinkers and ruffians in a farmer's tavern , old farmer at the table with a beer bottle or street musicians in the backyard , he captured people and situations of everyday life in pictures. Some of his well-known works are small, some in miniature; For example, Faun and Nymph (oil on wood) has the dimensions 9 cm × 8 cm and landscapes (watercolor / pen on wood) has side dimensions of around 2 cm.

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  1. Seitz Otto 1846 Munich - 1912 Munich. In: antikbayreuth.de. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .
  2. Seitz, Otto (Prof.). In: Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land - text excerpt from over 4900 short biographies. Antiquariat Benkert, archived from the original on September 10, 2011 ; Retrieved September 3, 2013 .

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