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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Otto Lange
- Otto Lange (1879 – 19 December 1944) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. After an apprenticeship as a decorator, he became a pupil of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and then studied at the Otto Gussmann Academy of art.
- From 1919 he lived in Dresden, where, alongside Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmueller, Otto Schubert and Lasar Segall, he co-founded the Dresdner Sezession group, a short-lived collaboration of German Expressionism.
- The works of this new generation of disillusioned artists placed a much greater emphasis on political and social reformation through pacifistic means, rather than adopting the nihilistic social criticism and cynicism of their Die Brücke predecessors.
- From 1921 he was a member of the Academic Council of Saxony and in 1925 he was appointed professor of the State Art School for Textile Industry, Plauen by Karl Hanusch.
- In 1926 he painted the Lutheran church in Ellefeld, Vogtland. Lange was arrested by the National Socialists in 1933, and lost his professorship.
- He then worked as a freelance artist in Dresden.
- In 1938, two of his paintings were shown at the Munich Degenerate Art Exhibition. Lange produced an extensive body of printed graphic work; his subjects ranged from religious representations to still lifes to book illustrations.
- His woodcuts differed from those of other expressionists, as Lange mainly used an elaborate technique of colour printing.
- Most of the time he did not print his work with a press or use a brayer, but instead made hand rubbings after he had inked the printing block directly with a brush.
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