Hands Up (Händehochhaltende) by Otto Meyer-Amden is in private collection. The size of the work is 20 x 20,2 cm and is made as an oil on paper.
About the Artist: Swiss painter and graphic artist Otto Meyer-Amden was born in Bern. After the premature death of his mother in 1888 was sent to live with foster parents. He was sent to an orphange in Bern in 1892 where he lived until 1900. He attended secondary school in Bern from 1901-1903, and then worked as an apprentice Lithographer in Zürich from 1903-1906. During this time he made symbolic watercolor paintings. Alongside his apprenticeship he attended night classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich.
From 1906-1907 Meyer studied at the Art Academy in Munich. He then moved to Stuttgart to study at the Königliche Akademie der bilden Künste from 1907-1908. n 1909 Adolf Hölzel gave him the title of master student. In Stuttgart Meyer made the acquaintances of Oskar Schlemmer, Willi Baumeister, and other artists. Oskar Schlemmer proved to be a lifelong friend. It was around this time that Meyer first read Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. In 1907 he took study trips to Strassburg and Paris, where he first saw works by Paul Cézanne. Read more
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