Otto Baisch

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Portrait of Otto Baisch, drawing by Hermann Baisch.

Otto Baisch (born May 4, 1840 in Dresden , † October 18, 1892 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer, editor, lithographer and painter. From 1884 until his death he was the editor in charge of the magazine Über Land und Meer .

Life

Otto Baisch was born on May 4, 1840 in Dresden as the son of the lithographer Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch (1805–1864), who was the artistic director of the CC Meinhold printing house there . Six years later, in 1846, Baisch's younger brother, the painter Hermann Baisch (1846–1894) was born.

Baisch attended the Annenschule , a secondary school in Dresden. In 1852 the family moved to Stuttgart. His father set up a lithographic facility in his own house at Neckarstrasse 34b. Baisch attended secondary school in Stuttgart. He then completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer with his father and studied painting at the Stuttgart Art School from spring 1860 to 1863 under the teachers Bernhard von Neher , Heinrich von Rustige and Heinrich Funk .

Lithographer

After his father's death in 1864, Otto Baisch took over the management of the lithographic institute in the name and on account of his mother, while his brother Hermann was still completing his apprenticeship. In addition to pieces of flowers and fruit, he mainly supplied large-format genre pictures in color printing for America. In his free time he attended literary and art history lectures by Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Wilhelm Lübke from 1865 to 1868 . In 1873 he gave up the lithographic establishment. He sold his parents' house and the lithographic establishment, which Gottlieb Ebenhusen continued to run at a different address under the company name "Gottlieb Ebenhusen formerly Wilhelm Gottlieb Baisch".

painter

Baisch decided to devote himself to painting in the future and went to Munich, where his younger brother had lived since 1870. On May 1, 1873, Baisch began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His teachers were Alexander Wagner and Wilhelm von Diez . He lived from 1874 to 1877 at Nymphenburgstraße 45, Schillerstraße 33 and Filserbräustraße 1. Unlike his successful brother Hermann Baisch, however, he was not successful as a painter.

journalist

Otto Baisch moved to Berlin, where he became editor of the " Daily Rundschau " founded in 1881 .

From June 1885, Baisch worked as the editor in charge of the magazine “ Über Land und Meer ” in Stuttgart. At the same time he became editor of the magazines " Illustrirte Welt " and " Deutsche Romanbibliothek ", which are also published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . In 1886 he married the writer Amalie Baisch born. Marggraff. The son Hermann Baisch emerged from the marriage. The family lived in Stuttgart in a rented apartment at Neckarstrasse 123 in the building of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt .

Retirement

Otto Baisch died of pleurisy at the age of 52 on October 18, 1892 in Stuttgart. His brother Hermann granted his late brother's wish and, one year before his own death, arranged for a collection of Otto's poems to be published, which he decorated with his own illustrations. Otto Baisch was buried in Section 3 at the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart . After the death of her husband, Amalie Baisch moved with her son to Kernerstraße 31 in 1894, where she lived with her mother Elisabeth Marggraff for a year. In 1896 she went back to Munich with her son, where she lived at Barerstrasse 14 in 1898. Around 1900 she lived in Bayreuth . She married the second marriage to Major Florian Gassner.

  • Otto Baisch took over the editing of Über Land und Meer, June 1885.

  • First edition of Über Land und Meer edited by Otto Baisch, June 1885.

family

Otto Baisch was married twice. Of his first wife, only her maiden name Griesinger is known. In July 1885 he married Amalie Baisch geb. Marggraff, who partly worked as a writer under the pseudonym Ernesta. Her father was Rudolf Marggraff (1805–1880), professor of art history and aesthetics and general secretary at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, whom Baisch had met at the academy. Marggraff's preparatory work for a biography of the painter Johann Christian Reinhart served Baisch as the basis for his own work on Reinhart. The marriage resulted in their son Hermann Baisch (* July 4, 1886), who took the name Hermann Baisch-Gassner after his mother remarried to Florian Gassner.

plant

Fonts

  • Otto Baisch: The German art at the Düsseldorf exhibition 1880: Studies and memorial sheets. Munich: Bassermann, 1880.
  • Otto Baisch: A Venetian Study. Novelette from the life of an artist. In: Allgemeine Kunst-Chronik, August 27, 1887, pages 900–903, pdf , September 3, 1887, pages 923–924, pdf .
  • Otto Baisch: Johann Christian Reinhart and his circles. A picture of life and culture based on original sources. Leipzig: Seemann, 1882, pdf .
  • Otto Baisch; Karl Liebrich (editor): Songs and sayings by Otto Baisch. Issued from his estate. With portrait of the poet, pen drawings. and etchings by Hermann Baisch. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894.
  • Otto Baisch: Sword and pen: a memorial sheet for the centenary of Frederick the Great's death. Stuttgart, 1881.
  • Otto Baisch: Festival to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the SM government of King Karl von Württemberg. Stuttgart, 1889.

Translations

  • Robert Burns; Otto Baisch: Robert Burns' works. Volume 1: Songs and Ballads. With an introduction and a new translation by Otto Baisch. Stuttgart: Spemann, 1883. - No other volumes have appeared.
  • Alfred de Musset: Seals by Alfred de Musset. Translated by Otto Baisch. Bremen: Kühtmann, 1880.

Contributions

  • K. Baur (editor): Württemberg and his King 1864–1889: a festive gift for the 25th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the King Karl von Württemberg. Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlags-Institut, 1889, page I: Württemberg Festival, poem by Otto Baisch. Pages 99–102: Music and Drama, essay by Otto Baisch.
  • Emil Bessels : Aniligka: a poetic story from the far north. Edited by Otto Baisch after the author's death. Stuttgart, 1891.
  • G. Kamberg (editor): A competition: artist novellettes. Contributions by Hieronymus Cervi, Paul Blat, Otto Baisch, Ernst Remin, Prof. Carl Erdm. Edler, Hans Rudolf Scharfer, Clara Bauckner, Wilhelm v. Wartenegg, Jenny Zink, Rudolf Czerny. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1889.
  • Emma Laddey (editor): Women's album: a festive present for Germany's women and daughters. With original contributions by Otto Baisch, Clementine von Braunmühl, Isabella Braun etc. Stuttgart: Banz, 1880.
  • Württemberg and its King 1864–1889: a festive gift to mark the 25th anniversary of His Majesty's reign, King Karl von Württemberg. With contributions by Otto Baisch… Stuttgart: Süddeutsches Verlags-Institut, 1889.

painting

  • Neuenstein Castle (Hohenlohe), 1880.

  • Farmhouse with pond, around 1875.

  • Peasant couple in front of homestead, around 1875.

  • Farewell in autumn, painting with a poem by hand.

literature

  • M. Bach: Baisch, Otto . 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. 386 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 1. Leipzig: Reclam, 1913, page 114, pdf .
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Baisch, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 190.
  • Karl Liebrich: Introduction [life of Otto Baisch]. In: #Baisch 1894 , pages 5–16.
  • Hermann Alexander Müller (preparation); Hans Wolfgang Singer (editor): General artist dictionary: Leben u. Works by the most famous visual artists. Volume 1: A - F. Frankfurt am Main: Rütten and Loening, 1895, page 57.
  • Ludwig Thaden: Otto Baisch †. In: Über Land und Meer, Volume 35, Volume 69, 1892/1893, Number 6, Page 124.
  • Dankmar Trier: Baisch, Otto . 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 , p. 332.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (editor): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). Volume 1: Aachen – Braniss. Munich: Saur, 2005, page 342.

Web links

Commons : Otto Baisch  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Trier 1992 , #Bach 1908 .
  2. ↑ #Bach 1908 , #Baisch 1894 , pages 5–7, Stuttgart address books 1864–1874.
  3. ↑ 02865 Otto Baisch, register book 1841–1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
  4. ↑ The address books 1878 to 1884 are not digitized.
  5. ^ In the Berlin address books there are entries for Otto Baisch from 1883 to 1885.
  6. ↑ # Baisch 1894 .
  7. ↑ Stuttgart address books 1886–1896.
  8. ↑ # Baisch 1882 , page V.
  9. ↑ #Baisch 1894 , pages 12–13: Also reprinted in #Kamberg 1889 .
personal data
SURNAME Baisch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor, lithographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1892
Place of death Stuttgart