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Donald BaechlerThe Benefit Mummy2005
2005
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Donald Baechler
The Benefit Mummy, 2005
Linoleum print, one color, with chine colle, on Rives BFK paper
Hand signed, numbered 7/17 and dated by the artist on the front; bears a documentation sheet from the artist's studio on the back
Frame included: held in original artist's frame from his studio
Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 17
Published by the artist; Printed by Naboisa Lazic at Atelier Redon, Brooklyn, NY
A justification (print documentation) sheet from the Donald Baechler's is affixed to the back of the frame
Original artists' vintage frame included.
Measurements:
Frame:
29.5 x 24.5 x 1.25 inches
Print:
20 x 15 inches
Donald Baechler biography:
Donald Baechler (b. 1956) emerged in the 1980s as part of New York City’s East Village art scene alongside such luminaries as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Baechler studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, then Cooper Union in New York City. To briefly escape New York of the late ’70s, he took up an invitation from German exchange students to visit their homeland, where he then spent much of 1978 and ’79 studying at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. There Baechler witnessed neo-expressionism taking hold in what became loosely known as the Neue Wilde movement, which featured German painters disinterested in the dominant forms of conceptualism and minimalism. Returning to the United States, Baechler honed his version of graphic, neo-expressive painting paired with flashes of Pop Art, American folk art, and children’s drawings. With Baechler back in New York, the early ’80s saw his first major solo shows in New York and abroad as he continued to explore brightly colored and thickly outlined foreground images—often flowers, faces, skulls, animals, and ice cream cones—painted over heavily textured collages sourced from scattered ephemera. Furthering what he has called his “education in public,” Baechler eventually began showing playful bronze statues of flowerpots and large-scale figures in stride. Overpainting, erasure, and intense editing—not to mention a lighthearted sense of humor—remain key to his process. “I’m an abstract artist before anything else,” he has said. “For me, it’s always been more about line, form, balance, and the edge of the canvas—all these silly formalist concerns—than it has been about subject matter or narrative or politics.” Still based in New York, Baechler cites Giotto, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Kosuth, and especially Cy Twombly as major influences.
Baechler has had recent solo exhibitions at Cheim & Read, New York; The Kunsthalle Merano, Italy and The Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria. His work can be found in the permanent collections of various institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Centre George Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; and Städtische Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
- Courtesy McClain Gallery
Published by the artist
Printed by Naboisa Lazic at Atelier Redon, Brooklyn, NY
- Creator:Donald Baechler (1956, American)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Width: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745212891072
Donald Baechler
Donald Baechler was an American painter and sculptor associated with 1980's Neo-expressionism. He lived in New York City. Baechler's source material drew broadly from classical art history, the New York School, contemporary art, folk art, outsider art, pop culture and childhood. Baechler has said that 'I hold onto absolutely everything I would guess out of every thousand images I save, I probably use one or two - It's necessary to accumulate all of these things to get to the point of what's important". He showed at Sperone Westwater, Cheim Read, Kunstalle in Basel, Switzerland, Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. His work has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Museum of contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
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