Otto Lange (29 October 1879,
Dresden – 19 December 1944, Dresden) was a German
Expressionist painter and
graphic artist.
After an apprenticeship as a decorator, he became a pupil of the
Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and then studied at the
Otto Gussmann Academy of art. From 1919 he lived in
Dresden, where, alongside
Otto Dix,
Conrad Felixmueller,
Otto Schubert
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and
Lasar Segall, he co-founded the
Dresdner Sezession group, a short-lived collaboration of
German Expressionism. The works of this new generation of disillusioned artists placed a much greater emphasis on political and social reformation through pacifistic means, rather than adopting the nihilistic social criticism and cynicism of their
Die Brücke predecessors. From 1921 he was a member of the Academic Council of
Saxony and in 1925 he was appointed professor of the
State Art School for Textile Industry, Plauen by
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. In 1926 he painted the Lutheran church in
Ellefeld, Vogtland.
Lange was arrested by the
National Socialists in 1933, and lost his professorship. He then worked as a freelance artist in Dresden. In 1938, two of his paintings were shown at the Munich
Degenerate Art Exhibition.
Lange produced an extensive body of printed graphic work; his subjects ranged from religious representations to still lifes to book illustrations. His
woodcuts differed from those of other expressionists, as Lange mainly used an elaborate technique of colour printing. Most of the time he did not print his work with a press or use a
brayer, but instead made hand rubbings after he had inked the printing block directly with a brush.
Gallery
File:Otto Lange Stilleben 1916.jpg , ''Still life with red ceiling'', 1916. Colour woodcut
File:Otto Lange Dame in Gruen 1918.jpg , ''Lady in green'', 1918. Colour woodcut
File:Otto Lange Papageien.jpg, ''Parrots'', 1917
File:Otto Lange-Madchen-mit-Puppe.jpg , ''Girl with doll'', 1917
References
* Richard Stiller: ''Otto Lange''. In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) 153 (1919), Nr. 3988, S. 706f.
* Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Hrsg.): ''Kunst im Aufbruch – Dresden 1918–1933.'' Dresden 1980.
* Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (Hrsg.): ''Mit Leidenschaft ins Holz gerissen. Der Dresdner Expressionist Otto Lange (1879–1944).'' Reutlingen 2011, .
* Claudia Schönjahn: ''Monumentale Graphik! Otto Lange (1879–1944); Leben und Werk; Werkverzeichnis seiner Druckgraphik'' Petersberg 2014,
External links
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Aquarelle portrait of a girl 1920
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20th-century German printmakers
German Expressionist painters
20th-century German painters
1879 births
1944 deaths
20th-century German male artists
German male painters