Otto Ubbelohde
Otto Ubbelohde (5 January 1867 – 8 May 1922) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
Otto Ubbelohde
Fotoatelier Carl Holzer München · Otto-Ubbelohde-Stiftung, Goßfelden. Ausstellung: Die Landschaft Ubbelohdes - hier und jetzt: Die Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs · Public domain
- Name
- Otto Ubbelohde
- Born
- 5 January 1867
- Birthplace
- Germany
- Died
- 8 April 1922
- Occupation
- painter, etcher and illustrator
- Education
- University of Marburg
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Honours
- honorary degree
- Languages
- German
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Otto Ubbelohde (5 January 1867 – 8 May 1922) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
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Biography
Biography
Otto Ubbelohde studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Gymnasium Philippinum Marburg. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich and Gossfelden. Work by Otto Ubbelohde is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Alte Nationalgalerie, Print Collection and Huis van het boek. Distinctions recorded are honorary degree.
August Ubbelohde (1833-1898) deutscher Jurist
Otto Ubbelohde · Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Inventar-Nr. 13840
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Otto Ubbelohde • Birth Name — Otto Ubbelohde • Born — 5 January 1867 • Birthplace — Germany • Died — 8 April 1922 • Occupation — painter, etcher and illustrator • Education — University of Marburg • Illustration — Otto and Hanna Ubbelohde 1906 • Illustration — Self-portrait, pen drawing 1914 • Illustration — Lustschlößchen in Amönau (Hesse, Germany) – template for Rapunzel tower • Illustration — Rimberg (left hill) nearby Goßfelden – template for Mother Hulda
Life
Life
Ubbelohde was born and grew up in Marburg, where his father August Ubbelohde was a professor at the University of Marburg. From 1900 he lived in Goßfelden, nowadays a part of the community of Lahntal.
Work
Work
Ubbelohde gained international fame for illustrating books of Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1906 and 1908 creating about 450 illustrations of fairy tales. He often took inspiration for his drawings from the landscape and buildings near his atelier and domicile in Goßfelden. For Rapunzel's tower he used as a model a building in Amönau called Lustschlößchen, while in Mother Hulda the landscape is inspired by the Rimberg.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Study, est. 1886 • Illustration — Landscape study, est. 1889 • Illustration — Rapunzel tower • Illustration — Mother Hulda • Illustration — Woman in White (Ubbelohdes wife Hanna)
Identity
Identity
Otto Ubbelohde is recorded as illustrator, painter, exlibrist, etcher and draftsperson.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1867
Otto Ubbelohde born at Marburg.
1922
Otto Ubbelohde died at Gossfelden.
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Marburg.
Birth place
Gossfelden.
Death place
Activity and practice
Otto Ubbelohde is recorded as having studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Gymnasium Philippinum Marburg.
Book illustrations
• Pussi Mau, und andere Tiergeschichten, Schaffstein, Cologne, circa 1904 • Gebrüder Grimm / Rob Riemann (Editor): Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm. With 446 illustrations of Otto Ubbelohde. 3 Volumes. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig 1906 • Otto Ubbelohde: Aus Alt-Marburg. 20 Landschaftsbilder von Otto Ubbelohde. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1906 • Otto Ubbelohde: Rings um Marburg. 20 Landschaftsbilder von Otto Ubbelohde. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1907 • Karl Ernst Knodt / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): Meine Wälder. Worte von Karl Ernst Knodt. Bilder von Otto Ubbelohde. Verlag Hermann A. Wiechmann, München 1910 • Ernst Piltz / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): Führer durch Jena. Fromann'sche Hofbuchhandlung Eckard Klostermann, Jena 1912 • Gebrüder Grimm / Rob Riemann (Editors): Die Grimmschen Märchen in einer Auswahl. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig 1912 • Otto Ubbelohde: Aus schöner alter Zeit. Federzeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1913 • Martin Lang / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): Alt-Tübingen. 30 Federzeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde. Wilhelm Kloeres, Tübingen 1913 • Otto Ubbelohde: Städte und Burgen an der Lahn. 20 Zeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1914 • F. Bruns / H. Mahn / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations) / Verein zur Hebung des Fremdenverkehrs in Lübeck (Editor): Lübeck. Ein Führer durch die Freie u. Hansestadt und ihre nähere Umgebung. Rathgens, Lübeck 1918 • B. Flemes / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): Führer durch Hameln. Schatzenberg, Hameln o. J. (est. 1920) • Ernst Koch / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): Prinz Rosa-Stramin. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1922 • Ludwig Harig: Da fielen auf einmal die Sterne vom Himmel. Begegnungen mit Dornröschen und dem Eisenhans – eine Märchenreise im Jugendstil. With drawings of Otto Ubbelohde. zu Klampen Verlag, Lüneburg 2002,
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984
- 2.R. Hoevel: Vorfahren Otto Ubbelohdes in sieben Generationen, in Katalog sämtl. Radierungen von O. U., Marburg 1967
- 3.Hans Laut: Otto Ubbelohde — Leben und Werk. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943
- 4.Short biography on Website of district Marburg-Biedenkopf (German)
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