Joseph Fach GmbH
Gallery of Fine Arts and Graphic Works
Frankfurt/Main - Germany
Ottmar Elliger II.1666 Hamburg – Amsterdam 1732 |
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„Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?“ (Luke 6: 41).Pen-and-ink and brush drawing in grey, grey wash, traces of red chalk, worked on with a slate pencil, signed „O. Elliger“ at lower right. 13:20 cm. |
Biography |
German painter and draughtsmanOttmar Elliger, who mainly worked as a history and portrait painter, first studied under his father Ottmar Elliger the Elder (1633-1679) in Berlin. After his father had died he moved to Amsterdam, where he became a pupil of M. van Musschers (1645-1705). From 1686 he worked together with the French painter G. de Lairesse (1640-1711), who lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1667. They created architectural pictures, wall and ceiling paintings with mythological and historical themes. In 1716 he became a painter at the court of the elector of Mainz, therefore he came back to Germany. From 1726 he worked as an engraver at the academy of arts in Saint Petersburg. |