Otto Schneider (artist)

Otto Henry Schneider (8 August 1865 – 23 January 1950) was an American artist, known for his landscape and figure paintings.[1] From 1923 until his death in 1950, he taught at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts in Balboa Park.[1]

Otto Henry Schneider
Born8 August 1865
Muscatine, Iowa, United States
Died23 January 1950(1950-01-23) (aged 84)
San Diego, United States
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of Buffalo, Académie Julian
OccupationArtist
MovementImpressionism

Biography

Otto Henry Schneider was born on 8 August 1865 in Muscatine, Iowa.[2] He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, under artists John Vanderpoel and Oliver Dennett Grover.[3] And continued his studies at the Art Students League of Buffalo, under artists Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, John H. Twatchman, George de Forest Brush, and Harry Siddons Mowbray.[3] Followed by study in Paris, France at the Académie Julian, under artists Marcel Baschet, François Schommer, Paul Gervais, and Henri Royer.[3]

From 1921 to 1923, he taught at the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts, the precursor art school to the Albright Art School (now known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery) in Buffalo, New York.[3]

References
  1. "Otto Henry Schneider". San Diego History Center. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  2. Westphal, Ruth; Petersen, Martin E. (1982). "San Diego Beginnings". Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland. Irvine, CA: Westphal Publishing. ISBN 0-9610520-0-7.
  3. "Contemporary Artists of San Diego". San Diego History Center. October 1970. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
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