Otto Greiner (16 December 1869 – 24 September 1916) was a German

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and graphic artist. He was born in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

and began his career there as a

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...

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 Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

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 Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmakin ...

, whom he met in 1891 while visiting Rome. Greiner died in Munich in 1916. The largest collection of his work in the United States is held by the

Jack Daulton James (Jack) Daulton (born October 30, 1956), also known as Nyi Nyi Min (Burmese: ညီညီမင်း), is an American art collector, trial lawyer, music entrepreneur, exploration philanthropist, and expert and lecturer on the history of ar ...

Collection in Los Altos Hills, California.

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Collection of Works by Otto Greiner

Entry for Otto Greiner
on the

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* 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German Symbolist painters German erotic artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 1869 births 1916 deaths Painters from Leipzig {{Germany-painter-stub

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