Alois Bach (painter)

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"In the quarry" - oil / canvas. 46.5 × 64 cm
"Altenburg from the Leipzig side." - Ink drawing inscribed. 1831

Alois Bach (born December 12, 1809 in Eschlkam , † March 6, 1893 in Munich ) was a German painter.

Bach was one of the most important painters in Eastern Bavaria in his century as the son of the royal Bavarian. Local administrator Franz de Paula Bach.

The entry in the Thieme / Becker artist lexicon includes a. about Alois Bach:

“Genre, animal and landscape painter. The landscape plays such a predominant role with him that the figures appear more as accessories and as a means of completing the coloristic mood, which he prefers to keep in a cool gray tone.

In treating the landscape, he joined his friend Eduard Schleich the Elder. Ä. to whose school he can be counted. "

Bach was one of the friends of the famous painter Carl Spitzweg , for whose painting he also designed the preliminary drawings. For example, he designed the precise preliminary drawing of the stork for the painting Der Klapperstorch by Carl Spitzweg.

Enlarged color photos of the watercolor Pflüger im Frühling and the painting Thurn und Taxis Postreiter are exhibited in the Gasthaus zur Post in Eschlkam. An original painting is privately owned by an Eschlkamer family.

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SURNAME Bach, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschlkam
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1893
Place of death Munich