Otto Ackermann (14 February 1872,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

– 31 May 1953,

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) was a 19th-century German painter, mainly of landscapes. In 1897, he moved to

, where he remained until his death in 1956. He painted mainly

landscape paintings Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

of Belgium and the Netherlands, also working in

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...

on the same subjects. He was chairman of the local Düsseldorf Painters' Society and is mentioned in the diaries of

Albert Herzfeld Albert Herzfeld (Düsseldorf, 1865 – Theresienstadt Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theres ...

. The few biographical facts there are include that he was trained by "Eschke in Berlin", presumably the naval and landscape painter

Hermann Eschke Hermann Wilhelm Benjamin Eschke (6 May 1823 - 15 January 1900) was a German painter who specialized in marine art. Biography Eschke was born in Berlin. In 1840, at the age of seventeen, he began his studies with Professor Wilhelm Herbig and, ...

(1823–1900). Ackerman travelled to Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. He mostly painted landscapes and Belgian and Dutch coastal and river scenes. Ackermann was an early member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In Düsseldorf he was a member of the association from 1899, and from 1898 to 1953 also of the artists' association Malkasten, from 1932 its chairman. In the course of the Gleichschaltung of the Malkasten, which took place during the National Socialist era, Ackermann became the new chairman of the association in 1934 after a change in the bylaws.

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1953 deaths 1872 births 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters Artists from Berlin Artists from Düsseldorf {{Germany-painter-stub

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