Otto Greiner (16 December 1869 – 24 September 1916) was a German painter and graphic artist.
He was born in Leipzig and began his career there as a lithographer 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 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, whom he met in 1891 while visiting Rome.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. pp. 40, 43. .
Greiner died in Munich in 1916. The largest collection of his work in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, California.
See also List of German painters
References
Further reading Prof. Dr. Hans W. Singer: Otto Greiner – Meister der Zeichnung. A. Schumann's Verlag, Leipzig 1912.
Julius Vogel: Otto Greiner. Velhagen & Klasings, Bielefeld 1925 Rolf Günther: Der Symbolismus in Sachsen 1870–1920. Dresden, Sandstein, 2005,
External links
Collection of Works by Otto Greiner Entry for Otto Greiner on the Union List of Artist Names