Otto Bache

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

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

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 married to Clara Charlotte Elise Haagensen on August 18th ^[2]

He was named a Commander in the Order of the Dannebrog and later was awarded the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. ^{[citation needed]}

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 1880 Bache became a professor, and then the director of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between the years of 1890-1892, 1896-1899, 1905-1906 before being succeeded by Vilhelm Bissen in 1906. ^[3]

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