Helmut Bachmann (painter)

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Helmut Bachmann-Diener (born October 7, 1939 in Dresden ; † 2015 ) was a German-Swiss painter.

life and work

Helmut Bachmann grew up next to four brothers. As a child he saw the Allied bombing. After the end of the Second World War , his family fled the Russian occupation zone to Hagen / Westphalia with the help of smugglers . He began a commercial apprenticeship, but left home at the age of 17 and was accepted into a German circus in Rotterdam . He later worked as a prop master and chauffeur in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin . He then lived in Cologne , where he worked as a representative for encyclopedias and as a taxi driver. Here he met Fredy Knie , whom he had already met in Berlin and whom he has now followed to Switzerland . From then on he worked as a chauffeur at Circus Knie . In 1971 he married Charlotte Diener from Eastern Switzerland . They had three daughters, one of whom is blind and the other was killed in an accident. The family lived in Fehraltorf for many years . Bachmann spent the last years of his life in a nursing home.

After a long and serious illness, Bachmann began to paint. His pictures are about his previous travels and his work in the circus; like those of his wife, they can be assigned to naive painting , but also to Art brut . Three of his works from the collection of Mina and Josef John acquired in 2014 are in the museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen .

Exhibitions

  • 2009: Halterhaus, Fehraltorf
  • 2015/2016: Helmut - Madeleine - Otto , Kunsthäuschen Herrliberg (group exhibition)
  • 2017: Flegeljahre, Kunsthäuschen Herrliberg (group exhibition)
  • 2018: The question of all questions is: friendship or business, Kunsthäuschen Herrliberg (group exhibition)

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personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann servant, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss painter (naive art)
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2015