Alexander Olbricht

Alexander Gustav Georg Olbricht (6 June 1876, in Breslau – 11 November 1942, in Weimar) was a German artist.

At the age of sixteen, he was employed by the firm of "P. Strunk", an art material supplier.

In 1899, he transferred to the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, and studied with Theodor Hagen.

[1] 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 1936, the Nazi government dissolved and banned the Deutscher Künstlerbund, of which he had been a member for many years.