Otto Pippel

* 1878, Lodz 1960, München

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* 1878, Lodz, 1960, München

Otto Pippel was born in 1878 in Lodz, then a Russian city but now in Poland. He died in Planegg on the outskirts of Munich in 1960. He began his artistic career at the School of Applied Arts in Strasbourg training to work on decorative projects, but his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Russian army for four years. After his military service he resumed his studies at the Karlsruhe Academy under Julius Bergmann (1861-1940) and Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927). In 1907-8 he studied at the Dresden Academy under Gotthard Kuehl (1850-1915). A study trip to Paris in 1908 was to have a formative influence on his Impressionist style. He settled in Planegg in 1909 where he was to live for the rest of his life. He joined the Luitpoldgruppe, a Munich-based artists’ group. In 1915 the first of many exhibitions of his work was staged at Galerie Brakl in Munich. Franz Josef Brakl, an energetic promoter of his paintings, was largely responsible for forging Pippel’s reputation as one of the leading South German Impressionist painters.

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Bonn, Wesendonck-Galerie
Dortmund, Städtische Galerie
Mainz, Landesmuseum
München, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Regensburg, Ostdeutsche Galerie
Rosenheim, Städtische Galerie
Polen, Lodz, Muzeum Sztuki

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Kiener, Dr. Hans: Otto Pippel zum 60. Geburtstag, in: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Wien, S. 520-524 Langheinrich, Franz: Der Maler Otto Pippel, München o. J. Reiner, Hermann: Otto Pippel 1878-1960. Ein Beitrag zum deutschen Impressionismus, Babenhausen 1980 Reiner, Hermann (Hrsg.): Otto Pippel, München 1948 Vollmer, Hans: s.v. "Pippel, Otto Eduard", in: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 27: Piermaria-Ramsdell, Leipzig 1923, S. 77 Vollmer, Hans: s.v. "Pippel, Otto", in: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 3: K-P, Leipzig 1956, Reprint München 1992, S. 594