Otto Westphal (painter)

Otto Westphal (born April 17, 1878 in Leipzig , † September 5, 1975 in Dresden ) was a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist and craftsman .

life and work

Grave of Otto Westphal in the Loschwitz cemetery

Otto Westphal attended the arts and crafts school in Kassel from 1894 to 1896 and from 1896 the Prussian higher technical school for the textile industry / weaving school in Krefeld . He then worked in handicrafts. In 1899 he went to Berlin and was a student at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and in the study atelier for painting and sculpture , the so-called Lewin-Funcke School in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

From 1904 to 1907 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Richard Müller and Carl Bantzer . He then worked freelance in Dresden. From here he went on study trips to Danzig , Thuringia, Hesse and on the island of Rügen . In 1924 he went to Italy and Switzerland to study. In 1930 he took a job for the German Archaeological Institute Rome / Pompeii . The Pompeii picture cycle was created there .

Westphal's painterly and graphic work was committed to impressionism . He drew his motifs from his Saxon homeland: this included above all city views of Dresden. He was also productive in his study locations. The artist belonged to the German Association of Artists and the Willingshausen painters' colony .

He was married to Margarete Westphal (1906–1978). The couple has a grave in the Loschwitz cemetery in Dresden.

Exhibitions

• 1937 Art exhibition Kühl , Dresden (with Curt Querner , Erich Fraaß and Johannes Beutner )
• 1938 Saxon Art Association , Dresden
• 1958 On the way. Art exhibition Kühl, Dresden, (on the occasion of his 80th birthday)
• 1959 Oil paintings, oil studies, drawings, etchings, woodcuts from the years 1908–1959. Meiningen museums , Meiningen
• 1971 New Masters Gallery , Dresden
• 2009  85 years - the gallery's anniversary exhibition. Art exhibition Kühl, Dresden

Work (selection)

• Figurative murals in the Blue Hall of Wilhelmsburg Palace, Schmalkalden (1927–1928)
• Oil painting in the management of the Radeberger Brewery Dresden (Waldtal, 1923), in the Theater des Volkes (Erbhof, 1935) and in the New Town Hall, ibid (garden house, 1935)
• Hersfeld . Ten original color lithographs, Hersfeld 1907
• Jena . Ten original color lithographs (Kassel, C. Victor, 1908)
• Dresden , Ten original lithographs (ibid 1909);
• Dresden: Frauenkirche; Cityscape; Kennel . Three original etchings (line etching), 1913

Works in public collections

• Slope in Loschwitz in winter. 1970, oil on hardboard, 100 × 75.5 cm, Galerie Neue Meister , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

literature

• Westphal, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 456 .
• Westpahl, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 120 .
• Hans Joachim Neidhard: Picture gallery new masters . Edition 5, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1977, p. 108
• Franz Goldstein, Ruth Kähler, Hermann Kähler: Monogram Lexicon. Directory of monograms by visual artists since 1850 , Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3110144530 , p. 1125
• Hans Joachim Neidhardt: Dresden as painters saw it , Weidlich, 1983, ISBN 3803512018 , p. 224
• Otto Westphal. Oil paintings, oil studies, drawings, etchings, woodcuts from the years 1908–1959 , Meininger Museen, Meiningen 1959

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Westphal, Otto ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 6, 2017)