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1917 Berlin, Germany - 1988 Kampen, Germany. Known for: Painting, etching, prints.
Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into... Read full biography
Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into near-abstract compositions, Eglau divided his compositions into striking graphic fragments. In 1947,... Read full biography
Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into near-abstract compositions, Eglau divided his compositions into striking graphic fragments. In 1947, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he studied under painters such as Oskar Nerlinger and Max Kaus. Eglau spent the next 20 years travelling the world by sea and teaching at the... Read full biography
Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into near-abstract compositions, Eglau divided his compositions into striking graphic fragments. In 1947, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he studied under painters such as Oskar Nerlinger and Max Kaus. Eglau spent the next 20 years travelling the world by sea and teaching at the Technical University of Berlin. Today, the artist’s works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Eglau died on February 23, 1988 in Kampen, Germany. Source: Davidson Galleries.... Read full biography
Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into near-abstract compositions, Eglau divided his compositions into striking graphic fragments. In 1947, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he studied under painters such as Oskar Nerlinger and Max Kaus. Eglau spent the next 20 years travelling the world by sea and teaching at the Technical University of Berlin. Today, the artist’s works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Eglau died on February 23, 1988 in Kampen, Germany. Source: Davidson Galleries.... Read full biography
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Otto Wilhelm Eglau was a German artist whose prints and paintings deconstruct scenes taken from aerial views. Frequently featuring power lines framing a city street or maritime ropes rendered into near-abstract compositions, Eglau divided his compositions into striking graphic fragments.
In 1947, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he studied under painters such as Oskar Nerlinger and Max Kaus. Eglau spent the next 20 years travelling the world by sea and teaching at the Technical University of Berlin.
Today, the artist’s works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Eglau died on February 23, 1988 in Kampen, Germany.
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