ArtistBauriedl, Otto

Artist Years1881-1961

Artist NationalityGerman

TitleAbend im der Karwendel
(Evening in the Karwendel)

Yearca. 1940

MediumPainting > Gouache

DimensionsBoard: 14.5 X 18 inches

Accession Number720539

NotesOtto Bauriedl was born of 9 August 1881 in Munich, he was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Bauriedl studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1898 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1905 at the Munich Art Academy with Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck.

Bauriedl created illustrations for the Munich magazine "Die Jugend" and various publishers, including for Gerlach's youth books, Vienna.

Bauriedl exhibited in the Munich Secession from 1904 and became a member in 1905. In 1905 he was also represented for the first time in the Hagenbund. From 1906 to 1913 he had a membership in the Hagenbund and from 1911 to the Union international of the Beaux-Arts des Lettres in Paris. 1914 to 1918 his war service was represented in the Snowshoe Battalion I, in the Vosges, the Carpathians, !stria and France. In the catalogue for the exhibition of the Hagenbund in Kosice 1922 he was referred to as a "Rural Member" (no work exhibited).

Bauriedl undertook study trips through Turkey, Italy, Greece and southern France. Bauriedl was represented from 1941 to 1944 at the annual Great German Art Exhibition in Munich with a total of 10 pictures, of which the Nazi leader Franz Xaver Schwarz acquired the oil painting "Autumn View to the Karwendel" in 1941 (today in the Bavarian State Painting Collection).
(source: wikipedia.org)