Otto Piltz

Otto Piltz (28 June 1846, Allstedt - 20 August 1910, Pasing) was a German genre painter and illustrator for Die Gartenlaube. He was the son of a soap-maker. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Halle, he studied at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School from 1866 to 1871. His teachers were Paul Thumann, Bernhard Plockhorst and Charles Verlat. During the 18...