Alf Bachmann

Self-portrait Alf Bachmann in 1947 at the age of 84

Alfred ("Alf") August Felix Bachmann (born October 1, 1863 in Dirschau , † November 1, 1956 in Ambach am Starnberger See) was a German painter .

Life

Bachmann was born as the son of the secret government councilor Franz Bachmann and Valerie Cords. He attended high schools in Breslau, Munster, Schnepfenthal and Berlin. He was a student of Max Schmidt at the Königsberg Art Academy . Study trips took him to the North Sea islands of Juist, Sylt and Föhr, Iceland, the Scilly Isles , Normandy , Portugal and Tenerife . From 1891 he lived in Munich , from 1941 in Ambach am Starnberger See.

Alfred Bachmann married Gertrude, née Krieger, on January 3, 1893, and Christine née Andresen after her death. Several children resulted from both marriages, of which the eldest son Jan Bachmann died in 1915 in the First World War.

He lived with his family in Munich, Mandlstrasse 1c and had his studio at Leopoldstrasse 87.

His work mainly includes depictions of coastal landscapes, but also moor and dune landscapes. His preferred artistic medium was pastel. From 1887 he exhibited regularly in the Munich Glass Palace . His works are in several public collections.

Bachmann was appointed by Otto Erich Hartleben to the "Halcyon Academy for Applied Sciences". He made the last portrait of Hartleben "on the death bed", published as a special publication by the Academy as a final greeting .

Honors

• 1913: Gold medal Glaspalast Berlin
• 1917: Great Golden Austrian State Medal for Art and Science
• Goethe Medal for Art and Science
• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Otto Weigmann : Bachmann, Alfred . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 316 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dankmar Trier: Bachmann, Alfred . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , pp. 149 f.
• Martin Angerer: The painter Alf Bachmann and his pictures from the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein. In: Nordelbingen Vol. 53, 1984, pp. 153-167.
• Alf Bachmann: painter of the coasts and seas (= catalogs of the museums in Schleswig-Holstein, vol. 7). Husum 1993.
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in art. Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1346-3 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Sylt in painting. Heide 2018, ISBN 978-3-8042-1481-1 .