Otto Schneider (artist)
Otto Henry Schneider (8 August 1865 – 23 January 1950) was an American artist, known for his landscape and figure paintings. From 1923 until his death in 1950, he taught at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts in Balboa Park.
Otto Henry Schneider was born on 8 August 1865 in Muscatine, Iowa. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, under artists John Vanderpoel and Oliver Dennett Grover. And continued his studies at the Art Students League of Buffalo, under artists Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, John H. Twatchman, George de Forest Brush, and Harry Siddons Mowbray. Followed by examination in Paris, France at the Académie Julian, under artists Marcel Baschet, François Schommer, Paul Gervais, and Henri Royer.
From 1921 to 1923, he taught at the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts, the precursor art educational to the Albright Art School (now known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery) in Buffalo, New York.