Otto Weber (other)
Otto Weber may refer to: * Otto Weber (painter) (1832–1888), German painter * Otto Weber (politician), Romanian politician *Otto Weber (theologian) Otto Weber (4 June 1902 – 19 October 1966) was a German theologian. Weber was born in Mülheim, Cologne, and studied at Bonn and Tübingen. In 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and was for a short time a member of the German Christians group. In 193 ...

Otto Weber (painter)
Carl Emil Otto Weber (17 October 1832, in Berlin – 23 December 1888, in London) was a German genre, landscape, and animal painter. He was one of the first to paint in the Breton village of Pont-Aven which later developed into an artists' colony. Biography His father, Wilhelm Weber was a merchant. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Carl Steffeck, then in Paris with Thomas Couture. In 1863–64, he travelled to Brittany where he painted genre works giving a romantic view of day-to-day life. In 1864, he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon: "Noce à Pont-Aven". It was the first painting known to be inspired by the village of Pont-Aven, which subsequently became famous for its colony of artists and gave rise to the Pont-Aven School. He continued to exhibit at the Paris Salon until 1869, and was awarded two medals. His "La curée du chevreuil" (1868) is now in the Musée d'Orsay. As a result of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he had to leave France, tr ...
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