Otto REINIGER (* 1863, † 1909)

Otto Reiniger is considered a leading painter of the so-called Swabian Impressionism and was given the title ‘Master of Flowing Water’.

Oil on canvas depicting trees in front of a hilly landscape by Otto Reiniger
Oil on canvas depicting trees in front of a hilly landscape by Otto Reiniger
 
 

1863
born in Stuttgart, Germany

before 1883
studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts under Albert Kappis and Jakob Grünenwald

1883
Otto Reiniger continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Joseph Wenglein, who is considered one of the last landscape painters of the Munich School

– married Marie Schraudolph, daughter of Claudius Schraudolph the Younger, professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy

In the following years
several study trips to Italy, including to Olevano Romano near Rome

1888
settled in Stuttgart

1900
O. Reiniger was awarded the honorary title of professor (without teaching duties)

1904
a fire destroyed most of Otto Reiniger’s works

1906
moved to a country estate on Lake Tachensee, near Stuttgart

1909
died in Tachensee, Germany

Sources:
– Professor Ingobert Schmid: Farbe der menschlichen Haut. Zur Ausstellung „Schwäbischer Impressionismus“, die am Sonntag eröffnet wird, in: Murrhardter Zeitung, 13. April 2011 (“Colour of human skin. On the exhibition ‘Swabian Impressionism’, which opens on Sunday, in: Murrhardter Zeitung, 13 April 2011”)

– Ingobert Schmid: Der Landschaftsmaler Otto Reiniger. Stuttgart 1982, p. 102.