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Otto Seitz, was a 19th-century German painter; born 3 September 1846 in
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 ...
. As a professor with the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. In the second half of the 19th centur ...
, he was the mentor of many major artists.


Works

His primary subjects were
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scenes, floral
still life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...
and
landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...
s. in works with titles such as: *"Boozers and Ruffians in a Rural Tavern" *"Old Farmer at the Table with a Beer Bottle" *"Street Musicians in the Backyard," *"Young Waitress" *Woodland and Rocks" *The Wedding Procession of
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and
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" *The Love Letter" *"Portrait of a Young Italian Woman" Some of his most famous works are small, sometimes even miniatures, for example, his "Faun and Nymph" (oil on wood) has the dimensions 9 cm x 8 cm (3.5 x 3.1 inches) and "Landscapes" (
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/ pencil on wood) had lateral dimensions of approximately 2 cm. (not quite 1 inch). He died March 13, 1912,Otto Seitz, at mutualart.com.
/ref> and was buried in the Old South Cemetery in Munich.


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Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Artists from Munich 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 1846 births 1912 deaths {{Germany-painter-stub