Otto Bache

Otto Bache
Otto Bache in 1868
Born	21 August 1839(1839-08-21) Roskilde
Died	28 June 1927(1927-06-28) (aged 87) Copenhagen
Nationality	Danish
Field	Painting
Training	Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Movement	Realism

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

Biography

Bache was born on 21 August 1839. Only 10 years old, on a dispensation, he was admitted into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, from 1854 studying under Wilhelm Marstrand.^[1] 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]

In 1866, he received the Academy's large Travel Grant and went to Paris and later to Italy. Particularly his stay in Paris had a deep impact on his work, turning it in a direction characterized by more freedom, more colour, stronger light, and broader scope.^[1]

Gallery

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  A pack of horses outside an inn, 1874

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  The conspirators ride from Finderup after the murder of Eric Klipping St. Cecilia Night, commissioned by the then recently established Danish Museum of National Gistory at Frederiksborg Castle

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  Danish soldiers return to Copenhagen in 1848 (1884)

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  Frederik IIX standing on the balcony of Amalienborg Palace (1911)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Otto Bache". Gyldendal. http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Danmark_1850-1910/Otto_Bache. Retrieved 2010-07-21. 

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

Persondata
Name	Bache, Otto
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	21 August 1839
Place of birth	Roskilde
Date of death	28 June 1927
Place of death	Copenhagen