Otto Gutfreund - Artist Info

About Otto Gutfreund

  • Biography

    Otto Gutfreund, also written Oto Gutfreund, was a Czech-Czechoslovak sculptor. Otto Gutfreund was born on August 1889 in the town of Dvur Králové nad Labem, Bohemia, as the fourth of five children of Karel and Emilie Gutfreund. During 1903-1906 he studied at the School of Creative Arts in the town of Bechyn. After completion, he attended the College of Decorative Arts in Prague for the next three years.

    In 1909 Gutfreund discovered the works of Antoine Bourdelle during his exhibition in Prague organized by the artistic group SVU Mánes. He studied with Bourdelle from 1909 to 1910. In November Gutfreund traveled to Paris and enrolled to study at Bourdelle's sculpture class at the Académie de la Grande Cha...

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