Hermann Baisch
(1846-1894)
Wide landscape with shepherds, 1863
original drawing
pencil on yellow paper
right of the stone signed and dated 1863 (see photo)
dimensions 28 x 37 cm, in Mat 50 x 60 cm
Hermann Baisch (1846 -1894 Dresden Karlsruhe) dt painter and etcher, born as the son of the lithograph, based on a child with his parents in Stuttgart and has been with his father in the shop, then visited the Stuttgart art school and goes to Paris in 1868, where he was both industrious Gallery to the old Dutch studies (Potter, Cuyp) made, and strong suggestions by the School of Fontainebleau (Rousseau, Daubigny, Dupré, Troyon) received. 1869 goes to Baisch A. Lier in Munich and is next to his master of the pioneers of a new direction: to capture nature as it is and the simplest subjects and objects through the idealizing power of light to be important to help effect. In 1881 he purchased is a professor at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, from then on his powerful style to the highest perfection and is one of the most excellent open-air painters in Germany. Holiday Travel to Holland by Baisch be extended until then almost confined to the Munich area surrounding material. Alongside the pictures from southern Germany now arise beach and marine pictures also Dutch pastures. He is, after he has purchased several gold and silver medals (Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Karlsruhe, London, Melbourne), Honorary Member of the Academy in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. achieved by the massive force in the game scene, by the simplicity and naturalness of its landscape, by the fineness of his feeling for nature, by the bright colors he significant effects. He chooses simple motifs of scenic nature, they usually animated with animal or human staffage, they are deeply felt sentiments, and has a real energetic and liquid paint application. May morning, Weidenbach, spring morning, dunes, cattle herd at the water (Karlsruhe): Important works by him are Mill in moonlight (1878, Stuttgart), herd of cattle in the rain at the channel drag, Forest Interior in Autumn. Serfaus Alp, Dutch Pasture (Munich), Tauholer, Krevettenfischer, shipyard in Volendam, on the drinker (Hannover), at low water at Dordrecht (Berlin), hauling up a dutch. Fishing vessel, arrival of the fishing boat
(Watercolor), early spring, near Munich, Dutch. River Landscape, Landscape Channel (Dresden), Dutch. Herb gardens, at the height of the dunes, etc. As etcher and illustrator on the poems and sayings of his brother Otto, he has also operated in the black and white art. Painting by Baisch are in the galleries at Breslau, Frankfurt, Munich, Prague (Rudolfinum), Stuttgart, etc. (Source: Thieme-Becker)
