Lot 548: The Breite Brücke in Potsdam

Heinrich Otto, Berlin 1891 - Potsdam 1967, The Breite Brücke in Potsdam, Oil/canvas, 70,5 x 60,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Otto Heinrich 1927. - German landscape painter. Already as a child he took lesson with Ph. Franck. After being trained as stage designer he studied at the Berlin Hochschule für Bildende Künst in Berlin under Fr. Kallmorgen a. U. Hübner. Since 1912 he exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung as well as at the Munich Glaspalast. An injury in WW I forced to paint with his left hand afterwards; nonetheless he won the Rome prize in 1919. One year later he settled in Potsdam. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Potsdam. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer.