Hans Bachmann (painter)

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Hans Bachmann (born April 30, 1852 in Winikon , † November 12, 1917 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss painter and art teacher.

Life

Hans Bachmann grew up in Winikon (today part of the Triengen municipality ), a small farming village in the Lucerne Central Plateau. His family has been attested there since the 17th century.

He attended middle school in Lucerne and then took private lessons in drawing and painting from Seraphin Xaver Weingartner . In 1870 he went to Düsseldorf to the art academy ; he was a student of Eduard von Gebhardt , then (privately) of Karl Hoff . At that time there was no arts and crafts school in Switzerland. In Düsseldorf, Bachmann was a member of the artists' association Malkasten from 1876 ​​to 1897 , where he became friends with the Swiss painter Aloys Fellmann, who was born in Oberkirch . Bachmann had to interrupt his stay in Düsseldorf 1880–1882 and return to Switzerland because of a lung disease; he was mostly in the mountains to relax.

In 1887 he married Wilhelmina Helene Dorothee Köller in Detmold (born September 6, 1861 in Detmold, † June 26, 1943 in Lucerne); the marriage remained childless. In 1889 Bachmann and his wife visited Paris and visited a. a. the Eiffel Tower and the World's Fair . This offered a comprehensive exhibition of French art as well as numerous works by international artists.

From 1895 Bachmann was in Zurich - Reiden , from 1905 in Lucerne. From 1897 to 1905 he worked as a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts , from 1903 until his death in 1917 at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts and also at a private painting school for women in Lucerne.

Bachmann was a member of the "Zurich Artists' Association" founded in 1897. and from 1899 to 1901 member of the Federal Art Commission. In 1909 he was one of the founding members of the Lucerne Secession.

In 1918 the Kunstmuseum Bern dedicated a commemorative exhibition to him.

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Hans Bachmann: The photo of the loved one , 1888
Hans Bachmann: Street in Brienz . Motive: Brunngasse in Brienz

In Düsseldorf Bachmann painted typical Rococo interiors under the influence of his teacher Karl Hoff . This changed on the occasion of the convalescence stay in Switzerland, as the painter describes in his «Curriculum vitae» around 1887: «[...] that I really got to know our beautiful Switzerland, became intimate with the country and its people, studied customs and traditions Time, when convalescent, painted about a hundred nature studies. Since that time I have painted almost exclusively pictures from our country and mountain life. […] So far I have had less financial success with the so-called peasant pictures than I used to with the sweet rococo pictures; but I hope that will change too. "

Indeed it was. His peasant genre painting , the descriptions of peasant everyday life and customs, the depiction of the landscape of the Central Plateau and the mountains brought the painter national and international recognition, including various honors, such as the gold medal of the Crystal Palace Picture Gallery Exhibition London in 1887 for the picture Christmas singer in the canton Lucerne . In 1896 Bachmann received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition Berlin ( Great Berlin Art Exhibition ).

For example, Bachmann received public commissions for the Bundeshaus in Bern and in 1903 for two murals - "Gessler's Death" and "Tells Death" - for the Tell Chapel in Hohlen Gasse in Sisikon ( Canton Uri ), which was completed in 1905 with Ernst Hodel junior and were inaugurated. The publisher Frédéric Zahn hired him, along with Albert Anker and other Swiss painters, as an illustrator for the edition of Jeremias Gotthelf's works published from 1894 onwards .

Work (selection)

  • “Evening bells”: Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; then wood engraving.
  • “To distant lands”, oil / cardboard, 56 × 81.5 cm: Aargauer Kunsthaus, deposit of the Werner Coninx collection, inv. D266 ( aargauerkunsthaus.ch PDF).
  • “Christmas Singing in the Canton of Lucerne”; displayed. London, Crystal Palace 1887 (Great Gold Medal); Basel, art museum.
  • “What the street tells”, 1889 (?): Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle (color illustration: m.karlsruhe.de ).
  • "To the final rest"; exhibited: Berlin, Academic Art Exhibition 1884; Barmen, Art Association 1887; Lucerne, art museum.
  • "Abandoned bowling alley", around 1880/82; Oil / canvas: Zurich, Kunsthaus, inv. No. 835; Provenance: Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (museum), Zürich, from 1907; Purchase from the Swiss rotating exhibition.

Works in the Art Museum Lucerne, Donation Peter Bachmann, Küttigen:

  • “Dreaming Girl”, undated; Oil / canvas, laid down on cardboard, 25.2 × 22.7 cm
  • “Portrait of a girl”, around 1850; Oil / Pavatex, 36.7 × 34 cm
  • “Overheard rendezvous in front of the alpine hut”, undated; Oil / canvas, 69 × 90 cm
  • “Christmas Singing”, undated; Oil / canvas, 50 × 78 cm
  • “White Sunday in the dunes”, undated; Oil / canvas, 60 × 86 cm
  • “Mutterglück”, undated; Oil / canvas, 65 × 50 cm
  • “Marienkapelle im Zelgli Engelberg”, undated; Oil / canvas, 58 × 58 cm
  • “Portrait of the Artist's Mother”, undated; 21 × 21 cm
  • “Holzer im Winterwald”, undated; Oil / canvas, 38 × 30 cm
  • “Winter Landscape”, undated; Oil / canvas, 11 × 15 cm
  • “Am Steg”, undated; Oil / canvas, 43 × 36 cm

further work:

  • "En passant"; exhibited: Bremen, Kunstverein 1880
  • "In the studio", 1887 (art trade)
  • “Martinsabend in Düsseldorf”; exhibited: Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 1887, Berlin, Academic Art Exhibition 1887, Magdeburg, Kunstverein 1888
  • "The doctor"; exhibited: Berlin, Academic Art Exhibition 1888
  • “The idea. Kavalier lets his greyhound do tricks in front of two ladies ”; exhibited: Berlin, Academic Art Exhibition 1888
  • "Sewing girl" to whom a boy lovingly hands a bouquet of flowers through the window into the living room, 1892 (art trade)
  • "Vision", 1993; Oil / canvas, 215 × 133 cm (art trade)
  • "Summer time" exhibited: Great Berlin Art Exhibition , Berlin, May 1 to September 29, 1895 (Golden Medal)
  • “Peasant Family at the Harvest”, 1906; Oil / canvas, 61.5 × 81 cm (art trade)
  • “Rest at the Hay Harvest”, 1912; Oil / canvas, 65 × 100 cm (art trade)
  • “Z'Nüni”, 1912; Oil / canvas, 72 × 95 cm (art trade)
  • "Portrait of JG Burkhalter", 1914 (art trade)
  • "View from the Bürgenstock into the Engelbergtal", 1916 (art trade)

literature

  • Bachmann, Hans. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, pp. 43-44 ( archive.org ).
  • Carl Brun : Bachmann, Hans . In: Swiss Artist Lexicon . tape 1 . Huber, Frauenfeld 1905, p. 67 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Carl Brun: Bachmann, Hans . 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. 317 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume I and V. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921.
  • Paul Hilber: Hans Bachmann - life and work of the important Swiss painter. Fraumünster-Verlag, Zurich 1949.
  • Bachmann, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 1, 1976.
  • Marcus Osterwalder: Dictionaire des Illustrateur. Volume 1, 1800-1914. Paris 1983.
  • Hans Ries: illustrations and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelmine era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators Bibliography of their work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
  • Philip origin: Bachmann, Hans. In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Volume 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 76-78; Illustration: What the street tells , 1889 (Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthall); Drive to baptism ; Window visit , 1885.
  • The New Zurich Times. July 13, 1899, supplement to no.192, December 2, 1954.

Web links

Commons : Hans Bachmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hilber: Hans Bachmann - life and work of the important Swiss painter. 1949, p. 18.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century. Published by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , Verlag August Bagel, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 275 (text next to the picture by Carl Mücke, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Paul Hilber: Hans Bachmann - life and work of the important Swiss painter. 1949, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Michael F. Zimmermann: Naturalism under the Eiffel Tower: The art at the world exhibition of 1889. In: Gudrun Gersmann, Hubertus coal (ed.): France 1871-1914. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002 (pp. 148-175).
  5. ↑ kuenstlervereinigung.ch
  6. ^ Paul Hilber: Hans Bachmann - life and work of the important Swiss painter. 1949, p. 20.
  7. ^ Paul Hilber: Hans Bachmann - life and work of the important Swiss painter. 1949, pp. 10, 43, 57.
  8. ^ Hans Bachmann: Christmas singer in the canton of Lucerne. 1887 ( 194.176.109.156 Kunstmuseum Basel ).
  9. ↑ tiscover.com
  10. ↑ Otto Baisch: "At the sound of evening bells". Poem with 3 verses and wood engraving after Hans Bachmann. 1893.
  11. ↑ Kunstmuseum Luzern Annual Report 2018, p. 37/38 ( kunstmuseumluzern.ch PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Winikon LU
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1917
Place of death Lucerne