104 - Otto Dill, two drawings featuring lions and two lithographs

Otto Dill, two drawings featuring lions and two lithographs Otto Dill, 1883 Neustadt an der Weinstraße - 1957 Bad Dürkheim, expressive study of a lion fighting a horseman, watercolour drawing on paper, 16 x 22 cm, signed, edge with crease, traces of mounting on the reverse; lion with magnificent mane, watercolour ink drawing, sheet 24 x 31 cm, signed, traces of mounting on the reverse; jousting tournament, colour lithograph, sheet 26 x 26 cm, signed, margin slightly creased and with a small tear; Seated man, lithograph, 24 x 22 cm, sheet 42 x 29.5 cmAbout the artist: Otto Dill studied painting at the Munich Academy from 1908 to 1914. There he was a master student of the renowned animal painter Heinrich von Zügel. By the summer of 1917, he had already held his first exhibition at the Glaspalast in Munich; in 1924, he was awarded the title of professor. To this day, Otto Dill is regarded, alongside Max Slevogt, as the most significant painter of the Munich School in the Palatinate. Works by Otto Dill can be found in numerous public collections, such as the Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), and the Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal). In 2001, a museum dedicated solely to his work was opened in his birthplace, Neustadt an der Weinstraße.