Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner

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Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner (born August 25, 1856 in Kolberg , † after 1930 ) was a German nude, genre and portrait painter.

After his private apprenticeship as a painter in Kolberg, Lingner studied painting from 1877 to 1881 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin with Paul Thumann and Otto Knille and continued his studies with Arthur Fitger in Bremen from 1883 . Together with Fitger he created wall paintings in the Bremen town hall , after which he followed him to Hamburg . In 1887 he settled in Berlin.

In the period from 1893 to 1914 he regularly took part in art exhibitions in Berlin, Munich and Paris . Nude painting dominated his work . He also created portraits, genre paintings and allegorical compositions. Many of his works appeared in the form of postcards .

Lingner also dealt with the technology of colors and is considered to be the inventor of the "Lingner colors".

literature

Reclining female nude
  • Lingner, Otto. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Dresden 1898, Volume I / 2, p. 883.

Web links

Commons : Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Berlin address books list Otto Lingner until 1930, most sources give the year of death as 1917.
  2. ↑ Lingner, O . , . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1889, part 1, p. 692. “Portr. u. Genre painter, W, Keithstr. 4 IV ".
    Lingner, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1917, part 1, p. 1738. “Kunstmaler, W62, Keithstr. 4 IV ".
    Lingner, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, Part 1, p. 1985. “Kunstmaler, W62, Keithstr. 4 IV ".
personal data
SURNAME Lingner, Otto Theodore Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lingner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nude, portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1930