Otto Lanz

Otto Lanz (14 October 1865, in Steffisburg – 23 March 1935, in Amsterdam) was a Swiss surgeon.

Afterwards, he took an extended study trip to Berlin, Naples and London, and in 1894 settled as a docent of surgery at Bern.

In the field of plastic surgery, he introduced mesh grafting in 1907.

[2][3] He was a collector of Italian Renaissance art, part of which, was on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

In 1941 his widow sold the collection to Adolf Hitler, who acquired it for his proposed Führermuseum in Linz.