TitleSchwabelweiss
Artist
Otto H. Bacher
(American, 1856 - 1909)
Date1879
MediumEtching printed in brown ink with plate tone on chine collé on cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 9 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.
Plate size: 3 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.
SignedSigned in the plate at BL: "Otto"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1981.301
Label TextBacher was born in Cleveland, Ohio. From approximately 1872 to 1876, he organized a life drawing class in Archibald Willard's studio, studied with DeScott Evans and Willis S. Adams, and founded the Cleveland Art Club. During the next several years he received considerable support and patronage from such leading local citizens as General John H. Devereux, Colonel John Milton Hay and H. B. Hurlbut. In 1878 he visited Edinburgh, London and Paris before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied in the antique classes of Julius de Benczur and Gabriel von Hackl, and where he became interested in graphic art and developed his skill as an etcher. While in Munich he executed his etching series of Bavarian scenes called the Danube series, which includes his print "Schwabelweiss." The village of Schwabelweiss is located halfway between Regenburg and Donaustauf. Bacher created the work during the course of a long walk. The village, with its church and dwellings, appears prominently in the middle distance.
