Otto Piltz

Otto Piltz (28 June 1846, Allstedt - 20 August 1910, Pasing) was a German genre painter and illustrator for Die Gartenlaube.

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Halle, he studied at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School from 1866 to 1871.

[1] His teachers were Paul Thumann, Bernhard Plockhorst and Charles Verlat.

He also travelled throughout Thuringia, Hesse, Bavaria and the Tyrol, documenting the local costumes that were already beginning to disappear.

He sometimes accompanied a young friend, Franz Marc, on painting excursions to Dachau.