Unique
chalk sketch by the well-known German painter Otto Dill (born June 4,
1884 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse; † July 6, 1957 in Bad Dürkheim).
Hand signed and dated 1925. Draft for a greeting card with depictions of
people and animals. Frame dimensions: 45.5 x 35 cm. Dimensions of image
section: 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Dimensions of the image: approx. 18.5 x 10.5
cm. On yellowish laid paper. Gallery price DM 1,200.00. In the gallery
frame. Dill studied painting at the Munich Academy from 1908 to 1914.
There he was a master student of the well-known animal painter Heinrich
von Zügel.
In 1914 he volunteered as a war
volunteer, but was transferred to the Bavarian War Ministry in 1916 due
to illness. Soon after, two years before the end of the war, Dill and
Emmy married Dorothea Schleidt. Dill started a life as a freelance
artist. In the summer of 1917 he was represented with a first exhibition
in the Munich Glass Palace. As a member of the Munich Secession, he
took part in various exhibitions of the artists' association in 1922. In
1924 he was awarded the title of professor.
Numerous
trips took the artist, among others. to North Africa, Italy, France and
Spain. Dill processed the impressions he gained there in numerous
paintings and drawings that were clearly influenced by Impressionism -
desert and Bedouin scenes, bullfighting studies and tiger pictures as
well as hundreds of depictions of lions, which earned him the nickname
"Lion Dill". Horse races and polo games were also among his favorite
subjects. A large collection of his works was destroyed in a bomb attack
in 1943 at the freight yard in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
In
1949 the city of Bad Dürkheim made Otto Dill an honorary citizen, in
the same year he became an honorary member of the Academy of Arts in
Munich and an honorary member of the Society of Heinrich von Zügel
Friends in Wörth am Rhein.
Works by Otto Dill
can be found in numerous public collections such as the Museum
Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, the Bavarian State Painting Collections in
Munich, the Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich, the State
Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg, the Musée National d'Art
Moderne (Center Georges Pompidou Paris), and in the Von der Heydt Museum
(Wuppertal). A museum was opened in 2001 in his hometown Neustadt an
der Weinstrasse, which is solely dedicated to his work. Numerous streets
are also named after Dill. To this day Otto Dill is considered the most
important painter of the Munich School in the Palatinate, alongside Max
Slevogt.
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