Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld - Artist Info

About Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld

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Rudolf Otto Ottenfeld, Rudolf Otto von Ottonfeld
  • Biography

    Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld (21 July 1856, Verona – 26 July 1913, Prague) was an Austrian military painter, a founding member of the Vienna Secession and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.

    Ottenfeld was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Karl Wurzinger and Leopold Carl Müller. He lived in Munich in 1883–93 and Vienna in 1893–1900. For the Sixth International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1892, he was selected as a juror.

    Ottenfeld did illustrations in a history of the Austrian army between 1700 and 1867 in 1895, which became a standard reference work on uniforms in the period.

    He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and sat on the Secession's working committee. The title page of the f ...

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