Hugo Othmar Miethke

Hugo Othmar Miethke (29 July 183411 January 1918), also known as H.O. Miethke, was a German art dealer who established an art gallery in Vienna, Austria.

Early life Hugo Hermann Werner Othmar Miethke was born on 29 July 1834 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia. Miethke, as the sole proprietor of the business, established it under his own name as Galerie H.O. Miethke.

By 1876, the art dealer was set up on Plankengasse 6 in Vienna. In February 1886, the Commercial Court of Vienna officially appointed and certified him as a master exhibitor and expert in paintings, art objects, and antiques.

Emperor Franz Joseph I granted Miethke in August 1890 the right to bear the Knight's Cross of the Papal Order of Pope Pius IX and the Serbian Order of the Cross of Takovo.

Miethke purchased the palace of Alexander Nákó (now known as Palais Eskeles) at Dorotheergasse 11 in Vienna's Innere Stadt. The land register recorded the transfer of the real estate from Ignaz Fleischer and Solomon Stein to H.O. Miethke on 18 April 1895. During that year, he commissioned Kupka & Orglmeister, a Vienna-based architecture firm, to redesign the palace for his gallery.

Upon retiring in 1904, he transferred ownership of his gallery to Hans Weidenbusch on 31 May 1904.