Otto Placht (born 1962) is a Czech artist based in Peru and Czech Republic. He paints on mesquite wood, which has been previously colored using the pigment from bark, vines and fruit from the neighboring plants.

Placht is featured in a documentary Painter of the Jungle, which is about Placht's life in Peru: his family life in the Indian village; the tradition of creating Indian ceramics; the ritual of preparing and drinking "iahuaska"; his attempt of finding his place and creating the art therapy center in Peru.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studied painting in the atelier Jiri Naceradsky (1982-1988), with whom he also worked as an assistant. Since 1993, he lives in turn in the Czech Republic an...