Otto von Groote
Philipp Heinrich Hubert Otto von Groote (born February 7, 1883 in Trier ; † July 31, 1943 in Bingen am Rhein ) was a German landscape , hunting , animal , still life and interior painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Von Groote, offspring of the Groote family and son of the royal forest master Joseph von Groote, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Willy Spatz , Fritz Roeber and Peter Janssen the Elder his teachers. Von Groote worked as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf. Study trips took him to the Schorfheide , the Eifel , the Harz and the Westerwald . From 1907 he sent the Munich Glass Palace and exhibitions in Berlin , Cologne and Düsseldorf. From 1905 to 1943 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He was also a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and the association for the organization of art exhibitions in Düsseldorf. Von Groote's work was influenced by an impressionistic conception of art. Through his sister Agnes Maria (1875–1948) he became brother-in-law of the painter Max Volkers in 1905 .
literature
- Groote, Otto von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Otto von Groote , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Otto von Groote , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register, Trier registry office, No. 79/1883
- ↑ Death register, registry office Bingen am Rhein, No. 205/1943
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 25, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groote, Otto von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, hunting painter, animal painter, still life painter and interior painter as well as etcher of the Düsseldorf school |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1943 |
| Place of death | Bingen am Rhein |