Otto Lindig

Curriculum Vitae

Otto Lindig

4. 1. 1895	Born in Pößneck, Thuringia, Germany.
1912 – 1913	Attending a school for drawing and modelling in the Thuringian-Forest and a sculptor`s studio in Ilmenau.
1913 – 1915	Begin of the essential vocational training studies at the State school for the Arts and Crafts in Weimar under Henry van de Velde as well as in the sculptor`s class under Richard Engelmann.
1915 - 1918	Exclusive sculptor`s studies at the State Academy, Weimar under Engelmann.
1918 – 1919	Military service.
1919 - 1920	Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, being presented with a masters studio by Walter Gropius.
1920 – 1922	Apprenticeship as a potter in the Bauhaus-Ceramics-Department under Max Krehan (Technical or Workshop Master) and Gerhard Marcks (Master of the Form).
1922	Certified as a journeyman.
1922 – 1925	Technical director of the Bauhaus-Ceramics-Department.
1925 – 1930	Employed as a teacher and director of the Bauhaus-Ceramics-Department.
1926	Certified as a Master of pottery.
1930	Separation of the ceramics- department from the Weimar Institute (Bauhaus) to keep it as a private enterprise.
1947	Call to the Hamburg Academy for Fine Arts.
1947 – 1960	Head of the Ceramics-Department at the Hamburg Academy for Fine Arts.
1966	4th July Otto Lindig died.