Rudolf Otto (painter)

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Rudolf Otto (born August 31, 1887 in Groß Schönau , † September 9, 1962 in Dresden ) was a German-Bohemian painter.

Life

Grave of Rudolf Otto in the Loschwitz cemetery

Rudolf Otto studied from 1905 at the Dresden Art Academy with Carl Bantzer and Robert Sterl . He was a temporary member of the Willingshausen painters' colony and mainly painted landscapes, still lifes and genre paintings . He lived and worked in Dresden- Loschwitz from 1937/1938 and was a member of the Association of Visual Artists in the GDR (VBK). His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery in Dresden.

Works (selection)

  • Hessian peasant couple with child on a bench in front of their house
  • Coastal landscape near List / Sylt . (1924)
  • Pavilion at the paw pond in the Ebersdorf Palace Park . (1927), cf. [1]
  • Boy bathing with horse
  • Meißen with a view of the Albrechtsburg and Elbe by steamer.
  • Still life with roses and lemons
  • Still life with peonies
  • Mountain landscape
  • View over the Elbe to the city of Meißen with Albrechtsburg on a hazy spring day.
  • Still life with peonies.
  • Green valley in front of high mountains.
  • Schwalm grace. (1934), Malerstübchen Willingshausen
  • Saxon Switzerland - Elbe landscape. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Mother with child. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Portrait of the roofer Kurt Werner. (1952), Dresden State Art Collections , New Masters Gallery
  • Peasant woman with child. (1958), Dresden State Art Collections, New Masters Gallery

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century, Volume 3. Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 532.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, p. 684.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art in the GDR - Rudolf Otto (accessed December 1, 2017)
  2. ↑ On the search for traces of German-speaking personalities in the Schluckenauer Zipfel, Gymnasium Rumburk, 2011, p. 9 ( Memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 3, 2017)
  3. ↑ Invaluable - Rudolf Otto (accessed December 1, 2017)
  4. ↑ artnet - Rudolf Otto (accessed December 1, 2017)
  5. ↑ Kunsthandel Henneken - Rudolf Otto (accessed December 1, 2017)
  6. ↑ Rudolf Otto at Arcadja (accessed on 1 December 2017)
  7. ↑ Carl Bantzer on Rudolf Otto (accessed December 1, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Schönau
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1962
Place of death Dresden