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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.
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