Ernst Oppler - Artist Info

About Ernst Oppler

  • Biography

    Ernst Oppler was born the son of an architect in Hanover, Germany in 1867. He went to university in Munich, and studied painting under Ludwig von Löfftz at the art academy. In London he studied the art of his model James McNeill Whistler. From 1901 to 1905 he lived in Holland where he made light-flooded landscape under the influence of the French plein-air * method and through the contact with the impressionist* painter Paul Baum, who was also active in Holland as a plein-air painter. In 1905 Oppler finally moved to the art metropolis Berlin, where joined the Berlin Secession*, which had been founded by Max Liebermann and the gallery owner Paul Cassirer with the aim to increase the reputation of impressionist painting in Germany.

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