Otto Gleichmann, German expressionist artist and print-maker, was born in Mainz and studied at the Dusseldorf Akademie and in Breslau and Weimar. After the First World War settled in Hannover and in 1926 moved to Paris. He contributed prints to various publications and was an associate of the Bauhaus in Weimar having a lithograph included in the fifth portfolio of the Bauhaus Drucke, Neue Europaische Graphik in 1923.