page_title: Ernst Oppler
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Ernst Oppler / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Von links: Wilhelm Kohlhoff, Erich Büttner, Friedrich Scholz, Ernst Fritsch, Leo v. König, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Oppler, Emil Orlik, Bruno Krauskopf, Charlotte Behrend-Corinth, Erich Waske, Franz Heckendorf
context_page_description: Ernst Oppler was a German Impressionist painter and etcher born in Hanover.
context_section_description: Ernst Oppler was the son of Edwin Oppler (1831, Oels (Polish: Oleśnica) – 1880), a prominent German-Jewish architect. Ernst Oppler's brother was the sculptor Alexander Oppler (1869, Hannover – 1937), the physician Berthold Oppler (1871, Hannover – 1943), and the attorney and notary Siegmund Oppler (1873, Hannover –c.1942, Hannover). His cousin was the designer Else Oppler-Legband (1875, Nürnberg – 1965, Überlingen am Bodensee).
  He studied at the Academy of Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz. Afterwards he moved to London to study the work of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, one of his favorite artists. He became a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in 1898. His early work was naturalistic in approach. In 1901 he went to the Netherlands to practise the pleinair method, and painted elegant portraits of the gentry in subdued tones.
caption: Oppler at a meeting of the Berlin secession (between Lovis Corinth and Emil Orlík [de]), drawing by Erich Büttner [de], 1921
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