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Otto Lindig
German
1895–1966
About the Artist
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Otto Lindig. Self-Portrait in Mirror. 1925–30. Gelatin silver print, 5 11/16 x 3 3/4" (14.4 x 9.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thomas Walther Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Peter Norton (MoMA 1762.2001)
Meeting Points
- Schools Bauhaus, 1919–33
Artist Chronology
| November 4, 1895 |
Born
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Pössneck |
| 1909–11 |
Attends the College of Drawing and Carving
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Lichte |
| 1911–13 |
Studies with a sculptor
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Ilmenau |
| 1913–15 |
Studies ceramics at the Grossherzoglichen Kunstgewerbeschule
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Weimar |
| 1918 |
Serves as a soldier
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Germany |
| 1919 |
Establishes his own sculpture studio
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Weimar |
| November 1920–November 1922 |
Apprentices in the Bauhaus Ceramics Studio
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Dornburg |
| 1924 |
Lindig's dish designs are used at the Staatlichen Porzellanmanufaktur and the Älteste Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik
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Berlin |
| 1924–March 1925 |
Serves as the technical and, shortly thereafter, commercial director of the Bauhaus ceramic workshop
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Dornburg |
| 1925–30 |
Directs the ceramic workshop of the Bauhochschule
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Dornburg |
| 1930–March 31, 1949 |
Directs the former Bauhaus ceramics workshop, which now runs as an independent entity
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Dornburg |
| 1946–47 |
Drafted into the German Wehrmacht; interned in a POW camp
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Germany |
| June 4, 1966 |
Dies
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Wiesbaden |
