biografía de Otto Henry BACHER (1856-1909)

Lugar de nacimiento: Cleveland, OH

Lugar de defunción: Lawrence Park

Direcciones: Lawrence Park, Bronxville, NY

Profesión: Painter, etcher, illustrator

Estudios: Royal Acad., Munich, late 1870s; Académie Julian, Paris, with Boulanger and Lefebvre, 1885-86; Carolus-Duran, also in Paris; Frank Duveneck in Florence, 1879, and in Venice, 1880; etching with Whistler, in Venice, 1880.

Exposiciones: NAD, 1880-93; Soc. Painter-Etchers, London, 1881; BMFA, 1881; Boston AC, 1884, 1888; Paris Salon, 1886; PAFA, 1883, 1893, 1898; Pan-Am. Expo., 1901 (prize); LA Purchase Expo., 1904 (med.); Parrish AM, 1984 ("Painter-Etchers" exh.)

Asociaciones: ANA; SAA; SI; Soc. Painter-Etchers, London (fellow)

Obra: BMFA; NYPL

Comentarios: In 1876 he made his first etchings in Cleveland and later refined his technique in Munich. He was one of the "Duveneck Boys," and brought his own printing press to Venice where he shared it with Whistler. Author: With Whistler in Venice (1908).

Fuentes: Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 316; American Painter-Etcher Movement 19; Falk, Exh. Record Series.