Otto Overbeck, self-portrait (1902)
photograph · 1902
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SUMMARY
A 1902 self-portrait by Otto Overbeck, used as the actor image for the practitioner. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons (license: public domain) with a credit line to Art UK (self-portrait-101980); the work's date is given as 1902 and the artist as Overbeck himself. The identification basis is the Commons file record's own attribution of both subject and artist to Otto Overbeck. This is a Commons-only record: of the four supported archives, Wellcome held only Overbeck's rejuvenator booklets and unrelated religious engravings by the painter Friedrich Overbeck, and a Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons file search on 2026-06-07 returned no other portrait of Overbeck the chemist; this Commons self-portrait is therefore the accepted actor image. Note: the Commons artist field gives Overbeck's life dates as 'c.1852-1937,' but the peer-reviewed source (Stark 2014) and the Wikipedia biography give his birth as 10 May 1860; the case uses 1860. Rights read from the Commons imageinfo extmetadata (License 'pd' / 'Public domain').
NOTES
The 1902 self-portrait of Otto Overbeck, who was a painter as well as a chemist and brewer, used here as the actor image on the practitioner entity. The image is hosted on Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain status, credited to Art UK, with the subject and artist both recorded as Overbeck. It is a Commons-only record because the four institutionally supported archives held no portrait of Overbeck the chemist (a dated search on 2026-06-07 found only his rejuvenator booklets at the Wellcome Collection and unrelated engravings after the unrelated painter Friedrich Overbeck). The caption keeps to what the file record asserts. The birth year shown in the Commons metadata (‘c.1852’) conflicts with the 1860 date in the peer-reviewed Stark 2014 study and the Wikipedia biography; this bundle follows the 1860 date.