Biography
Otto Poertzel (Scheibe 1876 - 1963 Coburg)
The son of a porcelain designer, Otto Poertzel completed an apprenticeship at the porcelain factory A.W. Fr. Kister before beginning his studies at the Technical Academy for Porcelain in Sonneberg in 1893. In 1908, he moved to Munich and studied at the Academy of Art in Munich with Adolf von Hildebrand, among others. Along the way he ran his own studio, which he had already opened in Coburg in 1900.
He received the title of professor from Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha for his services on behalf of the state.
He was responsible for numerous figures in bronze or chryselephantine, which he had executed by the Berlin foundries Rosenthal and Maeder and later by Preiss and Kassler.
As early as 1904 he took part in the World Exhibition in Saint-Louis and at the International Art Exhibition in Brussels in 1910.
