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ARTIST: Otto Kubel (Germany, 1868 - 1951) NAME: Mountain Landscape MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Missing few flakes of paint. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 17 inches / 33 x 43 cm FRAME SIZE: 22 x 27 inches / 55 x 68 cm SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119493 US Shipping $75 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: He was born in Dresden, and studied at the School of Applied Arts there, before moving to Leipzig where he worked as a commercial artist. He then moved to Munchen at the turn of the century, resuming his studies at the Akadamie der Bildenen Kunste (Royal Academy of Fine Arts). He was active in the artist community as one of the ˜Munich School of painters, which at the time was leading painting away from romanticism to a more naturalistic style. Indeed, Furstenfeldbrock where he lived became the seat of a small artist's colony.His best known works are illustrations of fairy tales. This included books, school posters, and postcards. There are many examples to be found, not just in Germany, but also in America where the Grimm Fairy Tales had become popular and Otto Kubel's illustrations along with them. He also illustrated many books, both German and American.Alongside this, commercial, work he was undertaking portrait commissions as well as producing a wide range of landscapes.It is interesting to note that, when it came to landscapes, like most artists of the time, he produced many versions of the same, popular, scenes.He was, to say the least, prolific, across many media, but of course he needed to be because this was how he made his living.His other media, aside from oil painting, included pencil or charcoal (his characterful sketches of people are worthy of particular note), as well as scherenschnitte (paper cuts).It is fascinating to reflect just how important an artist was in those days, and what a range of skills someone like Otto Kubel had.His art and imagination live on even now, more than sixty years after his death.