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Otto Bachmann, Biography
painter and graphic artist
 
born: 1915 in Luzern/Switzerland, died: 1996 Losone/Ascona/Switzerland

On the art market Swiss succeeded painters already for a long time. Many honours and prices, which he could obtain in the past with numerous exhibitions, occupy this On the art-market Bachmann have already put through for a long time itself time.

The lithographs to „Goethe's Faust” of 1941, ranks among the most important works of its work. The purchase took place e.g. also from the Goethe - house in Frankfurt/Main.

This more or less exhausted represented the original lithographs, which Bachmann is to the ballad „faithful dear, faithful dear lost” (Balade „Treulieb, Treulieb ist verloren“) from Clemens (Maria) Brentano (*1774  †1842) in the year 1960 to on the finest prepared, not only in the tender meetings, but in its physiognomy in free and spontaneous way on the stone drew. 

Indifferently whether it now the designs prepared to the perfection, which are to be seen to a part as offset-lithographs in this exhibition or which becomes original lithographs the preference/advantage to give, the exhausting to enjoy of the romantic-inspired whole one probably more than everything particular the refined of the composition, which masterful ones of the additions the largest joy prepare. 

Bachmann is not only considered as one of the best and safest draughtsmen in Switzerland.

 

The artist Bachmann is one of the last prototypes in a maltreated garden Eden, always walking in fussing haste, the head over the clouds, viewless by the cloaks of the slanderers and envious people. Each humans know it in such a way and with many speak he, and he remains unattainable in a strange kind nevertheless.

 

Otto Bachmann, who is also a master of the detail, in Ascona he lived since more than thirty years.

 

Bachmann ancestors were Swiss, and in the alpine republic one seizes a decent occupation, meant the father, a railroad man, who wanted to make a post office worker from the son. The bred basket hung at that time highly, also in Switzerland.

 

After seven terms college of arts and crafts he hitch-hiked loosely, no money in the bag. His youth lies on the highways of Europe. He became the exotic guest of a gypsy family, he followed a traveling-circuses, climbed on high-hurries and cranked the barrel organ. He vegetated and lived, saw and drew. The wine, which one pushed over to him, did not taste clean always, and the widows, who through-fed him, were not young always.

 

Into Spain he came into confusions of the civil war, was arrested and each morning in the dungeon by the salvos shooting command waked. His execution doesn't occur. One let the young artist run again, and Bachmann impressed until today that one had given with the deportation over the French border as march food supply a bottle red wine to him. The hitcher of the art again established, returned to Zurich, to perform with visions and impression. Which it showed, attention excited in the racing speed. Already very soon to gather a circle of art-inspired poor blighter around himself.

 

The Second World War began. He fed himself laboriously - and the artistic break-through with Goethe's „Faust” came at one time: Two designs were noticeable to an art publisher in such a way that it decided despite adverse time runs, the first Bachmann briefcase to still bring out in addition on China tissue paper. The twelve designs found unanimous, already stormy applause in the press. The criticism main header the young artist on their shoulders, but buyers gave it still few. „At that time humans had fear also in Switzerland that everything would go at the basis.

 

As well as the Second World War to end was, pulled Bachmann after Ascona. It paints witches, holy ones and prostitutes, sinner, boozers and gluttons, death and devil, romantically and impudently, Homeric and maliciously, carnal and sentimental. Its princesses look like prostitutes, the prostitutes such as princesses, and that is safe more experience than coincidence.

 

Otto Bachmann looks for new motives, dares new color compositions, but never change his style, his statement, his strength, his handwriting.

 

Also not, since millionaires want to belong to his patron of the arts and away-buy him also less wealthy one semi finished works of the easel.

 

For some artists success becomes the danger, but Bachmann leaves himself did not mark out. He does not despise the money, but he relates it to his value, and which means: Life, journeys, perhaps once a new car, and anyhow a good bottle wine, and this not only the day after tomorrow.

 

The artist works daily five, six hours, so concentrated on its work that he always works outside of his studio a little absent-minded.

 

He swims regularly, and he plays chess. He is graduated wine connoisseur, and he knows the composer, whom conductors and the orchestra call with classical music with considerable security.

 

In the stylish restaurant „AI Pontile “gives it, from gourmets praised mushroom soup A la to Bachmann. As it remained itself faithful in its work, it did not change also as humans. It lives still in church tower proximity of its cradle, but its homeland is the world.

 

Already to the 50 he finally married and behaved themselves nevertheless like a bachelor. It lives with his pretty Mrs. Wand at wall, everyone has its own dwelling and the key force over it. One visits oneself mutually, and Angelika, a shot Gretchen and very much Helena, eternally womanlike approximately, lively and flirtatious, playful and eccentrically, loving the alternation, is it MUSE such as penalty.

 

As a success poet itself with it made friends, vogue Bachmann for sake it sake the gulf racquet.

 

The surely richest acknowledgment of its artistic work is that not only high-wealthy acquire its pictures, but also those, which must save for a Bachmann. The painter of Ascona reached vocationally like privately everything, what can be given to an artist during lifetimes. Success did not spoil it - and it speaks for it that it did not out-come over Goethe. Overwork: Hans Terwege.

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