Academy.—Ch. Blanc, Êcole hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 207; Dohme, 1ii.; Gower, Figure Painters, 45, 103; Immerzeel, ii. 288; Kramm, iv. 1234; Van der Willigen, 233; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 351.
OSTENDORFER, MARTIN, first half of
16th century. German school; court painter
to Duke William IV. of Bavaria. Works:
Portraits of Duke William IV. and his Wife
Maria Jacobäa.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 316;
Nagler, x. 411.
OSTENDORFER, MICHAEL, born in
Suabia about 1490, lived in Ratisbon, 1519-59.
German school; history and landscape
painter of little individuality. Formed
himself after Altdorfer. Works: Altarpiece
(1553), Portrait (1523), Ratisbon Museum;
Representation from the Apocalypse,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Martyrdom of St.
Bartholomew, do. of St. Andrew, Germanic
Museum, Nuremberg; Christ on the Cross
(1552), Portraits of Duke Albert V. of Bavaria
(1543), and of Palatine Philip, Crucifixion,
Schleissheim Gallery; Judith, Cologne
Museum; Taking of Christ, Pietà,
Execution of Brothers Ewald, Bathsheba,
Altarpiece, formerly in Kränner-Müller Gallery,
Ratisbon.—Keane, Early Masters, 173;
Kugler (Crowe), i. 269; Nagler, x. 413; Niedermayer,
270; Schuegraf, Lebensgeschichtliche
Nachrichten über den Maler M. O.
(Ratisbon, 1849); Sighart, 587, 589; W.
& W., ii. 417; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 191,
193.
OSTER, MICHAEL, born in Strasburg
in 1807. History painter, self-taught; his
compositions distinguished for deep religious
feeling and purity of form. Works:
Madonna with Saints, Episcopal Seminary,
Strasburg. Frescos: Archangel Michael
and the Fallen Angels, Scenes from Passion
of Christ, Souffelweyersheim, Alsace.
OSTERROHT, GUSTAV, born at Stensitz,
West Prussia, in 1836. Landscape
painter, pupil in Carlsruhe of J. W. Schirmer,
visited the Baltic Coast, the Black
Forest, Bavarian Alps, and Tyrol. Works:
View in Baden Black Forest; Landscape
from Inn Valley; Graveyard Chapel; Forest
Stream, and others, mostly in the Art
Union Galleries of Carlsruhe, Hanover, Cassel,
and Munich.—Müller, 402.
OSTERWALD, GEORG, born at Rinteln,
Weser Valley, Jan. 26, 1803, died at Cologne,
July 1, 1884. Architecture, landscape,
genre, and history painter, pupil in
Munich (1822-25) of Gärtner, studied from
nature in Switzerland and North Italy, then
in Paris, 1830-32, lived for some years in
Hanover, studied the Dresden Gallery in
1841, and settled in Cologne, where he became
professor; visited Italy in 1854-59 and
Scandinavia in 1864. Works: Bamberg
Cathedral, Castle Ruin at Heidelberg
(1834); Market Square at Lemgo (1837),
Cassel Gallery; Faust in his Study (1836);
City Hall of Cologne (1842); Jeremiah predicting
Birth of Christ, Honour to Music!
(1843); Henry the Lion (1844); Cologne
Cathedral (1846); Siena Cathedral (1855),
View of Rome, Cologne Museum.—Kunst-Chronik,
xix. 643; Merlo, 309; Müller,
402.
OTINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA D'. See
Cima da Conegliano.
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OTT, JOHANN NEPOMUK, born in
Munich in 1804, died there in 1870. Landscape
painter, pupil of Munich Academy
and of Wilhelm von Kobell; visited Italy in
1833. Works: Convent on Shore by Moonlight;
Convent of Taormina in Sicily;
View in Upper Inn Valley; Alp
near Gastein; View of Castilani and
Gaeta (1835), New Pinakothek, Munich.—D.
Kunstbl. (1850), 386; (1854), 435;
(1857), 61.
OTTER HUNT, Sir Edwin Landseer, private
gallery, England. The huntsman, having
speared the otter, holds him on high
while the dogs, twenty or more, howl frantically
around him. Painted in 1844 for
the Earl of Aberdeen; at his sale, 2,375
guineas; bought later by Baron Albert
Grant for 10,000 guineas; at his sale
(1877), £5,932 10s., to Agnew, London;
E. J. Coleman sale (1881), £3,097. En-
