id: 151407 accession number: 1983.243 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.243 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:21.771000 Standing Female Nude, probably 1878–79. Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909). Charcoal; sheet: 61 x 40.7 cm (24 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. DiPrima 1983.243 title: Standing Female Nude title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: probably 1878–79 creation date earliest: 1878 creation date latest: 1879 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. DiPrima copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: charcoal department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909) - artist Painter and printmaker Otto Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to earn international renown in the art world. Born in Cleveland, Bacher grew up in a neighborhood bordering the east bank of the Cuyahoga River near the mouth of Lake Erie. A childhood pastime of sketching shipping activities in the busy port eventually led to a job painting inscriptions on commercial vessels. He became interested in art during his teen years and studied with De Scott Evans and also learned from Willis Seaver Adams and Sion Wenban. In 1876 Bacher helped found the Art Club and had a solo show at the Kemmer and Kushman Decorating Company. The following year he had his second solo exhibition, at J. W. Sargeant’ s Art Shop. He traveled to Europe in 1878, attended the Munich Royal Academy, and studied with Cincinnati native Frank Duveneck in Munich, Florence, and Venice. A chance meeting in Venice with James A. McNeill Whistler in 1880 led to a long friendship that had a decisive effect on Bacher’ s etching style. In 1883 Bacher returned to Cleveland and began teaching at the Cleveland Academy of Art and privately at a summer retreat he organized in Richfield, Ohio. He returned to Europe in 1885, hoping to stay for an extended period, but his financial situation forced him to come back to America. After a brief visit to Cleveland, Bacher settled in New York City. To support himself, he did illustrations for Century Magazine in 1888. In 1895 he moved to Bronxville, New York, and by that time his artistic style revealed a strong debt to impressionism. During the last two decades of his life, he exhibited in New York, London, Paris, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. Bacher died in Bronxville.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 222. --- measurements: Sheet: 61 x 40.7 cm (24 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in black ink: Otto H. Bacher translation: remark: inscription: lower right, in charcoal: Bacher translation: remark: inscription: Watermark: P L BAS, ED & Cie (in cartouche) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection." --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. DiPrima, Chatham, NJ date: ?-1984 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: January 23, 1984 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Otto Bacher was the first Cleveland artist to achieve a national reputation. He probably made this drawing while studying at the Royal Academy in Munich. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984). page number: p. 72, no. 123 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.243/1983.243_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.243/1983.243_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.243/1983.243_full.tif