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Otto Greiner (16 December 1869 – 24 September 1916) was a German
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
and graphic artist.
He was born in
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
and began his career there as a
lithographer
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
and
engraver.
[Boime, A., State University of New York at Binghamton., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute., & Finch College (N.Y.). Museum of Art. (1974). ''Strictly Academic: Life Drawing in the Nineteenth Century''. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton. p. 40. .] He relocated to
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
around 1888 and studied there under Alexander Liezen-Mayer.
Greiner's mature style – characterized by unexpected spatial juxtapositions and a sharply focused, photographic naturalism – was strongly influenced by the work of
Max Klinger
Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmak ...
, whom he met in 1891 while visiting Rome.
Greiner died in Munich in 1916. The largest collection of his work in the United States is held by the
Jack Daulton
James (Jack) Daulton (born October 30, 1956) is an American art collector, trial lawyer, music entrepreneur, exploration philanthropist, and expert and lecturer on the history of art and architecture. Daulton rose to fame representing the natio ...
Collection in Los Altos Hills, California.
See also
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List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
References
Further reading
* Prof. Dr. Hans W. Singer:
Otto Greiner – Meister der Zeichnung'. A. Schumann's Verlag, Leipzig 1912.
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* Julius Vogel: ''Otto Greiner''. Velhagen & Klasings, Bielefeld 1925
* Rolf Günther: ''Der Symbolismus in Sachsen 1870–1920.'' Dresden, Sandstein, 2005,
External links
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Collection of Works by Otto GreinerEntry for Otto Greineron the
Union List of Artist Names
The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artist ...
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19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
German Symbolist painters
German erotic artists
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
1869 births
1916 deaths
Artists from Leipzig
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