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Russian Artists
19th Century
Early 19th Century
Portraitist
Otto Hermann Österreich
Draughtsman, lithographer, painter. Born in the family of sculptor Johann Georg Österreich (1790). Studied sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Drew a series of portraits of Russian writers and poets engraved by Ivan Chesky and Stepan Galaktionov (1820s). Died in an unknown place (after 1831).