From 1911 to 1913 he worked as a stage designer in Düsseldorf and Berlin. At the same time he attended the Düsseldorf Academy from 1911 to 1912
Otto Meister was born in Dresden on October 26, 1892. In 1907 he attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts and in 1908 he completed an internship at the painting halls of the Saxon Court Theater. From 1911 to 1913 he worked as a stage designer in Düsseldorf and Berlin. At the same time he attended the Düsseldorf Academy from 1911 to 1912, the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts from 1912 to 1913 and the Dresden Art Academy from 1913 to 1914. In 1914 he took part in the First World War.
Between 1921 and 1928 he continued his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Robert Sterl. In 1921 he received the Rome Prize. In 1934 he was banned from exhibiting, and in 1942 he worked as a war painter for a squadron of visual artists. After the war he repeatedly took part in exhibitions in Nuremberg. In 1945 he settled in Erlangen, where he became a lecturer in painting at the adult education center in 1946. In 1950 he was a founding member of the Kunstverein Erlangen. Otto Meister died in Erlangen in 1959.

The photo is part of a bundle of factory photographs. The inventory of masters also contains personal details, diaries, sketchbooks, manuscripts, correspondence and newspaper articles covering a total period from 1919 to 1987.