Gottfried Albert Maria Bachem

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Gottfried Albert Maria Bachem (* 1866 in Bonn ; † 1942 ) was a German painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From 1887 Bachem studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen the Elder , Adolf Schill , Eduard von Gebhardt , Julius Roeting and Carl Ernst Forberg . From October 21, 1892 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Otto Seitz .

Then he settled in Leipzig . He later lived in Düsseldorf from around 1915 , where he first lived in Oberbilk and, after the First World War, until the early 1940s in Oberkassel , Wildenbruchstrasse 50. There his wife Hedwig gave birth to their daughter Renate Gabriele in 1916, who became known as an artist under the name Bele Bachem .

Bachem, who belonged to the artists' association Malkasten from 1921 to 1932 , painted portraits, genre scenes and landscapes, and also illustrated children's books. From 1900 he took part in numerous art exhibitions, including in Berlin .

Works (selection)

  • Old City , 1917; Oil on canvas, 98 × 125.5 cm
  • In the room , 1918; Oil on canvas, 92 × 77 cm
  • Leisure time , oil on canvas, 76.5 × 66.5 cm
  • Death as a knight on horseback , oil on canvas, 65 × 104 cm
  • Young seamstress , oil on canvas, 78 × 60 cm

Illustrated children's books (selection)

  • Clementine Helm : Lilli's youth . (1905) (2012 reprint Nabu-Press ISBN 1273068785 )
  • Friedrich J. Pajeken: The rule of fate. Three stories from country life . With pictures by Gottfried Bachem. Volks- und Jugendschriften-Verlag of the New Prussian Teachers' Association, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna 1912.
  • Else von Steinkeller: Aunt Else's fairy tales. Fairy tales and funny children's stories . Anton, Leipzig / Berlin 1913
  • CF Stauffer : The aviator from Ypres. A story from the great world war . Anton, Leipzig / Berlin 1915
  • Ottomar Stühr: We'll hold on! A story with and about Hindenburg. Told the German youth . With pictures by Gottfried Bachem. Georg Wigand, Leipzig, around 1915
  • Johanna Weiskirch : When the daffodils ring! A. Jaser, Nuremberg 1926
  • Klara Fritzsche: When the daffodils ring! Easter picture book . A. Jaser, Nuremberg 1929
  • Hedwig Courths-Mahler: Poor Swallow. A story for young girls . Illustrated by Gottfried Bachem. A. Anton & Co., Leipzig (no year).

literature

  • Alga Klotz: Children's and Youth Literature in Germany 1820-1965. Complete list of publications in German, 5 volumes, JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1990–1997. Volume 1, A-F, 1990, p. 127.
  • Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Volume 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 438.

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Albert Maria Bachem  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. No. 82–95 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive ).
  2. ↑ Apollinarisstrasse 17, Bachem, Gottfried, painter . In: Address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices of Benrath , 1915, p. 18
  3. ^ Painter: Bachem, Gottfried, Wildenbruchstrasse 50 . In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf , 1926, p. 363
  4. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal ( Malkasten Artists' Association )
personal data
SURNAME Bachem, Gottfried Albert Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachem, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 1942