Ottmar Elliger [SEP] occupation
Ottmar Elliger
Ottmar Elliger (1633–1679) was a Flemish Baroque flower painter.
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was born in Göteborg, but he was trained in Antwerp by Daniel Seghers. His earliest dated work is from 1653. He is registered in Copenhagen in 1654, Amsterdam in 1660 (where he married), Dordrecht in 1662, and Hamburg in 1665. In 1670 he became court painter to Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg in Berlin, where he stayed. His Dutch pupil Hermanus Noordkerk started a
be in correspondence while Marrel was in Frankfurt.
His son Ottmar Elliger the Younger or Ottmar Elliger II (1666–1735) was also an artist.