Alexander Olbricht
Alexander Gustav Georg Olbricht (6 June 1876, in Breslau – 11 November 1942, in Weimar) was a German artist. He created approximately 2,000 graphics, engravings, silhouettes and oil paintings. Biography His father, Gustav Olbricht (1851–1892) was a painter and art restorer at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts. At the age of sixteen, he was employed by the firm of "P. Strunk", an art material supplier. After his father's death, he enrolled at the , where he studied with the landscape painter, . In 1899, he transferred to the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, and studied with Theodor Hagen. Five years later, he married Margarethe Thurow (1882–1972), from Mecklenburg, whom he had met at the school. After this, he gradually gave up oil painting in favor of graphics and printmaking. In 1908, he produced his first large format etchings and, the following year, produced a series of twenty small format etchings depicting Weimar and its surroundings. He was drafted at the beginning of World War I but, due to his relatively frail condition, served only briefly as a batman to an officer in Weimar. In 1921, he was named a professor at Bauhaus University. He served until 1935, when he