Otto Erdmann
Illustration — Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann • Illustration — The Card Game • Illustration — Music Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann (7 December 1834, Leipzig - 9 December 1905, Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter in the Rococo Revival style.
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Otto Erdmann
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- Born
- 1834 · Leipzig.
- Died
- 1905 · Düsseldorf.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann • Illustration — The Card Game • Illustration — Music Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann (7 December 1834, Leipzig - 9 December 1905, Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter in the Rococo Revival style.
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His father was the chemist, Otto Linné Erdmann. He began his artistic education at the Leipziger Akademie and later attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, followed by the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied with the genre painter, Ludwig von Hagn. In 1858, he settled in Düsseldorf, where he began to specialize in Rococo Revival paintings, largely set in a light-hearted court environment. He was a member of the artists' association, "Malkasten", and sat on its board of directors for many years. He was also an amateur actor. In 1898, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle. In addition to his paintings, he created illustrations; notably for the inaugural edition of the Belgian journal, L'Illustration Européenne in 1870.
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• Illustration — Saying Farewell • Illustration — Proposal, 1873 • Illustration — Le message, 1872 • Illustration — Die Gartenlaube (The Garden Arbor) • Illustration — Marriage Proposal • Illustration — I might soon be rich • Illustration — Die Gartenlaube
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1834
Otto Erdmann born at Leipzig.
1905
Otto Erdmann died at Düsseldorf.
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- 1.Otto Linné Erdmann in: Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig. Herausgegeben vom Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Historisches Seminar der Universität Leipzig. Leipzig 2016.
- 2.Adolf Rosenberg: Aus der Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Studien und Skizzen. Leipzig 1890, pg. 43.
- 3.Bestandsliste des Künstlervereins Malkasten (Stand 07/2005).
- 4.Personalnachrichten. In: Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, N.F. 9, 1898, Vol.32, pg.521 (Online)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Babette Marie Warncke: Rokoko-Mode. Rokokorezeption in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dissertation an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, S. 50 ff. (Online)
- Erdmann, Otto. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Dresden 1891, Vol.1, pg.275
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The authorities additionally record the headings professor otto erdmann, Erdmann, O. Erdman and Erdman. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Otto Linné Erdmann. Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the forms Dießkau, Otto Erdmann von, Dießka, Otto Erdmann von and Dißkau, Otto Erdmann von.
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The Music Lesson
1879 · Shipley Art Gallery
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Erdmann, Otto, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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