Painter, poet, musician and bonvivant, Otto Tetjus Tugel was trained at the Hamburg school of applied arts. He became the central figure of expressionist painters in Worpswede, but also was co-founder of the Hamburg secession.
His rich pictorial language changes between soft verves and crystalline structures referring to cubism, later it is dominated by a neo-mannerist design vocabulary.
Around 1908, Tetjus studied a few semesters at the School of Applied Arts Hamburg.
In the first World War, he had to serve as a soldier. In 1919 he was a founding member of the Hamburg secession and also a member of the Hamburg artistry.
In 1938, two works were shown by him in Berlin at the exhibition "Degenerate Art".
