Life and Artistic Development
Ottokar Gräbner was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. His early years included working as a traveling actor in 1922 and 1923. Following this, he underwent an apprenticeship with the Danzig wood sculptor Seipold and received drawing lessons from Bruno Paetsch. After living as a painter in Berlin in 1925, he worked in Danzig from 1926 to 1929.
His formal studies took place at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main between 1930 and 1933, where he was a master student of Max Beckmann and attended the graphics class of Franz Karl Delavilla. Following a period of emigration to the Soviet part of Poland from 1936 to 1942, he returned to Kochel am See in Germany in 1943. Later in life, he moved to Munderkingen near Ulm.
Works and Exhibitions
Gräbner's diverse body of work includes various media and subjects. His output includes:
His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions, including shows in Gent, Paris, Hannover, Solingen, Wiesbaden, and Munich. His art is represented in collections such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, and the Museum Kunst der Verlorenen Generation in Salzburg.
