Otto Plattner
Swiss painter, graphic artist, and heraldist.
Otto Plattner was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and heraldist. Otto Plattner was born in Liestal (Canton Basel-Landschaft) on June 29, 1886, the son of the merchant Wilhelm Plattner and Marie Plattner, née Strübin. He completed courses at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel and was encouraged by Fritz Schider. He then did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. In 1910, Plattner was in Paris with Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa and in Munich with Moritz Heymann. In 1912, Plattner founded his own studio on Eichenstrasse in Basel. In the same year, he married Frida Lüdin from Liestal, the daughter of the bookseller Friedrich August Lüdin. In addition to his free works and wall paintings, he was particularly interested in graphics and glass painting, as well as occasional Schnitzelbänke. He soon became a sought-after lantern painter for the Basel Carnival. Study trips took him to Italy and Sicily in 1922, to Tunisia in 1926, to Italy and Cologne in 1933, to Upper Bavaria and to Hungary in 1935. In the mid-1930s, he took up residence in Liestal. Otto Plattner died in Stein am Rhein on October 20, 1951 and was buried in the Liestal cemetery. Karl Aegerter delivered the eulogy on October 23, 1951. Thanks to a donation from the artist's daughter, Stefy Plattner, the majority of his estate is kept in the Liestal Museum of Literature and History.
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- 33’000 Angestellte & Arbeiter müssen Prämien zahlen! – Zwangs-Arbeitslosen-Versicherung – Nein 1926
- […] Dorum stimme alli guete Schwyzer Jo 1938
- Hie Basel – hie Schweizer Boden – Liste 3 circa 1925
- Ist eine solche Wiedervereinigung zeitgemäss! – Nein 1938
- Basler Dichter-Abende im Stadtcasino – Emanuel Stickelberger 1920
- Gegen rote Theorie und Praxis – Bürgerliste 3 circa 1925
- Hausier-Gesetz – Ja 1934
- Initiative betr. Überprüfung des Staatshaushaltes – Ja 1939
- Neue Basler Zeitung circa 1935
- Nicole der rote Diktator von Genf. Wollt ihr ihm auch Basel ausliefern 1935
- XI. Kantonalschützenfest beider Basel, Liestal 1937
- Zu den eigenen Lasten soll die Stadt auch noch die der Vororte tragen – Wiedervereinigung Nein 1936
- Zur Kommunisten-Initiative 1925
- Gehaltserhöhung und Ferienverlängerung – Arbeitslosigkeit und Krisis – Beamtengesetz; Nein 1927
- Louvre Basel – Total Ausverkauf 1923
- An den müden Grossratswähler 1923
- Was ist besser – Wohnungsbau-Initiative Nein! 1926
- Liste 3 – Liberal 1932
- Werktätige Bürgerliche – Wählt Liste; 2 1922
- Wie die Arbeit, so der Lohn Präsenzzeit-Initiative; Ja! 1929