Otto Heichert

Otto Theodor Rudolf Heichert (27 February 1868, in Gröningen Priory – 22 March 1946, in Oberschönau, near Berchtesgaden) was a German painter and graphic artist; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

He was the first of four children born to Rudolf Wilhelm August Heichert, the caretaker of a monastery, and his wife, Marie Sophie née Hohmann.

At the age of fourteen, he was able to enroll at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Hugo Crola, Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen.

There, he became a member of the progressive artists' association "Malkasten" (Paintbox), and established himself as a portrait painter with an upper-class clientele.

It depicted King Frederick William I of Prussia in 1732, welcoming Protestant immigrants from Salzburg.