Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909)
American Impressionist landscape & figure painter and Golden Age illustrator, printmaker & etcher ;
O.H. Bacher ; O. H. Bacher ; Otto H. Bacher ; O. Henry Bacher ; Otto Bacher ;
[Born May 31, 1856 in Cleveland, OH – died August 16, 1909 in Bronxville, NY]
FAD record control number: 28988 ;
Record level: Person ;
Record type: Artist ;
Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) biography:
Birth: May 31, 1856 in Cleveland, OH ;
Death: August 16, 1909 in Bronxville, NY ;
Sex: Male ;
Ethnicity: White ;
Zodiac: Gemini ;
Known for: Impressionist female nudes ; impressionist landscapes ; prints ; etchings of Cleveland, OH ;
Medium: Oil ;
Technique: Painting ;
Subjects: Women ; landscape ;
Areas: Cleveland, OH ; New York, NY (1888-1909) ; Bronxville, NY ; Venice, Italy (1881-1883) ; Cincinnati, OH ; Florence, Italy (1880) ;
Region: Midwest ; North East ;
Lived: Cleveland, OH ; Bronxville, NY ; 80 East Washington Square, New York, NY (1888, 1893) ; 58 West 57th Street, New York, NY (1889) ; 58 City Hall, Cleveland, OH (1884) ; Bond & Superior Streets, Cleveland, OH (1883) ; Lawrence Park, Bronxville, NY (1898) ;
Father: Henry Bacher (1822-1891) ;
Mother: Charlotta Rauch (1831-1908) ;
Relatives: August Bacher (1858-?), brother ; Henry Louis Bacher (1860-1935), brother ; Tillo Bacher (1862-?), sister ;
Spouse: Mary Augusta (Holland) Bacher (1863-?), wife, married 1888 in Cleveland, OH, was an art student ;
Children: Holland Robert Bacher (1890-1958), son ; Otto D Bacher (1892-?), son ; Eugene Denby Bacher (1893-1981), son ; William O Low Bacher (1898-?), son ;
Training: Public schools ; Mount Union College in Alliance, OH under David “De” Scott Evans (1847-1898) (1874-1875) ; Privately under James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), friend who would influence his style (1874) ; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA ; Etching under Sion Wenban (1848-1897) ; In Italy under Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) ; Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany (1878) ; Académie Julian, Paris, France (ca.1885) ;
Instructors: David “De” Scott Evans (1847-1898) ; James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) ; Sion Wenban (1848-1897) ; Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) ;
Work: Worked as a decorative painter for homes and ships ; Friends with the artist who set up the Cleveland Academy of Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH and was part of its board ; Illustrated for Scribner’s, McClure’s, and Century Co. (1908) magazine ;
Taught: Summer sketching class with Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923), Richfield, OH ;
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Member: Art Club, Cleveland, OH (1876) ; Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, England (1881) ; Society of Illustrators, New York, NY, founding member (1901) ; National Academy of Design, New York, NY, associate member (1906) ;
Exhibited with: Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (1881, 1884) ; St. Louis Exposition, St. Louis, MO (1904) ; Boston Art Club, Boston, MA (1884, 1888) ; National Academy of Design, New York, NY (1880, 1884, 1888, 1889, 1893-1894) ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1883, 1893-1894, 1898) ;
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Digital-born document number:
FAD.2018.28988
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