German painter Otto Eduard Pippel (1878-1960) was one of the most important Impressionists in Southern Germany.
As the son of German parents who had emigrated to Lodz, Pippel enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Straßburg in 1896 with the express wish to become an interior decorator and a decorative painter.
He had to interrupt his studies shortly afterwards, however, as he was drafted into the Russian army for four years.
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