Otto Schubert

Biography of Otto Schubert

Otto Schubert, born in Dresden (Kingdom of Saxony) on January 29, 1892 and died in this city, in the district of Loschwitz, on June 12, 1970, is a German painter and graphic artist.
Otto Schubert studied from 1906 to 1909 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and worked from 1909 to 1913 as a scene painter at the Dresden Court Theatre (Semperoper). From 1913 to 1914 he studied graphics with Emanuel Hegenbarth at the Dresden Art Academy. He did his military service from 1914 to 1917 and from 1917 to 1918 he was a master student of Otto Gussmann and Otto Hettner and received the Grand State Prize.
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In 1919, Otto Schubert founded the Dresden Secession Group together with Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller and others. Discovered by Julius Meier-Graefe, he was introduced to the Marées-Gesellschaft, which published several books illustrated by him from 1918 onwards. Unfortunately, many of the graphics were lost during the Second World War, when the printing blocks and plates were destroyed. Schubert had his first major special exhibition in 1922 at the Alfred Flechtheim Gallery in Berlin. From 1945 onwards, he worked as a freelancer in Dresden.
His work remains a valuable part of the history of graphic art, despite the losses suffered during the war.