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Otto Riedel was born in Klosterneuburg in 1906, the son of the town's first evangelical pastor of the same name. From 1927 to 1930 he attended the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna, later from 1930 to 1933 he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts. In 1935 he passed the teaching examination and then worked as a teacher. The years passed with military service and imprisonment until 1946. During the Second World War he was inspired to draw by the villages of Russia and France. His intensive creative period began in the 1950s, which was associated with many trips to Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, but also to the north. In 1957 he became a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien, from which all honors were awarded to him. In 1965 he became president of the Klosterneuburg Artists' Association, where he exhibited for the first time in 1943 in the Zedlitzhalle in Vienna. He was involved in more than 40 collectives, among others in Venice, Bremen, Göppingen, Künstlerhaus Wien and achieved a wealth of participations worldwide. He receives the medal d'argent in Brussels and he is awarded the title of professor. Riedel developed an unmistakable style of architectural drawings as well as wood, lino and metal prints and left behind an extensive body of drawings, prints, watercolors and oil paintings.
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