Otto Bache

Otto Bache
Bache in 1868
Born	(1839-08-21)21 August 1839 Roskilde, Denmark
Died	28 June 1927(1927-06-28) (aged 87) Copenhagen, Denmark
Resting place	Cemetery of Holmen, Copenhagen
Education	Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Movement	Realism

Otto Bache (21 August 1839 – 28 June 1927) was a Danish Realist painter. Many of his works depict key events in Danish history.

Biography

At age eleven he received a dispensation and was admitted into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Wilhelm Marstrand, among others.[1]

In 1866, he received the Academy's travel grant and went to Paris and later to Italy. His stay in Paris had a particularly deep impact on his work, turning it in a direction characterized by more freedom, more colour, stronger light, and broader scope.[1] Upon his return in 1868, he was married.

He was named a Commander in the Order of the Dannebrog and later was awarded the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn.

He received early recognition as a portrait painter but he also showed great interest in painting animal motifs, gradually also turning to genre works and history painting.[1]

He was the father of lawyer Niels Haagensen Bache.

Gallery

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  A Pack of Horses Outside an Inn
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  The Conspirators Ride from Finderup After the Murder of Eric Klipping
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  Danish Soldiers Return to Copenhagen in 1848
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  Colonel Müller at Sankelmark Lake

References

1. "Otto Bache". Gyldendal. Retrieved 2010-07-21.

External links

Media related to Otto Bache at Wikimedia Commons

Cultural offices
Preceded by Ferdinand Meldahl	Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1890–1892	Succeeded by Theobald Stein
Preceded by Theobald Stein	Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1896–1899	Succeeded by Ferdinand Meldahl
Preceded by Vilhelm Bissen	Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1905–1906	Succeeded by Vilhelm Bissen