Otto Johannes Bähr

Self-portrait (detail), 2006, poster color

Otto Johannes Bähr (born July 6, 1919 in Bamberg ; † November 8, 2008 in Munich ) was a German painter . He was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists, Munich, the Association for Original Etching Munich eV, the Haimhauser Kulturkreis and various national and international associations for Christian art.

Life

Otto Johannes Bähr studied art history and philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1946 to 1950 . Adolf Schinnerer , Willi Geiger , Emil Preetorius and Anton Marxmüller were particularly influential for him . The training in plastic anatomy took place with Siegfried Mollier. In the first few years his style was based on late impressionism , but especially on Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh . In the proportionality of his nudes, the influence of the construction principles developed by Leonardo da Vinci can still be seen today.

1948: Academy Award for Etching
1948: State examination for art education in higher schools
1948–1950: Adolf Schinnerer's master class in Ottershausen . Here also intensive work in the Amper landscape around Dachau . Contacts with the slowly disintegrating artists' colony Dachau .
1951–1981: Teaching as a teacher and later as director of studies at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Munich.

Otto Johannes Bähr lived and worked in Munich- Pasing .

His sculptures and paintings are represented in public and private collections, for example in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München .

Oil painting

Reading in the garden, 1962, oil painting
House on Lake Como, 1968, oil painting
"Panta rhei - The Great Wave", 2001, oil painting and mixed media

Etchings

"Vita Somnium Breve - Life a Short Dream", 1988, drypoint
"The Lovers and Death", 1980, drypoint
"The bath in the Amper - the beauty of life", 1998, drypoint

Important exhibitions

1948: Etchings, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1981: Art and artists in Dachau and in the Amperland 1890–1930, Haimhausen Castle
1982: Watercolors, etchings, graphics, oil paintings, Galster / Mohr / Sieber art studio, Munich
1982: 90 years of the Association for Original Etching Munich eV, Rathaushalle, Munich

Publications and reviews

Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner : Dachauer painter - The artist place Dachau from 1801-1946 . Bayerland publishing house, Dachau 1981, ISBN 3-922394-02-7 .
August Rettenbacher: The Petrus Legends . With illustrations by Otto Johannes Bähr. Tauriska, 1994.
Galerie Bernd Dürr: Art and Artists in Dachau and Amperland 1890–1930 . Catalog for the exhibition at Haimhausen Castle near Munich, 1981.
La Revue Moderne Illustree des Artes et de la Vie . Paris.
Exhibition reviews by Germain Dezeau (January 27, 1956) and P. Gayot (March 31, 1965).
Exhibition review of the Haimhauser exhibition by Müller-Mehlis. (Münchner Merkur from January 7, 1982)

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personal data
SURNAME	Bähr, Otto Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH	November 8, 2008
Place of death	Munich