Hans BACHMANN (* 1852, † 1917)

1852
born in Winikon, Switzerland

– secondary school in Lucerne

1869
private lessons in drawing and painting with the
painter Seraphin Xaver Weingartner (Düsseldorf School) in Lucerne

1870
Düsseldorf Art Academy, pupil of Eduard von Gebhardt

– private student of Karl Hoff

1876-1897
member of the Malkasten artists’ association, where he
befriended Aloys Fellmann from Lucerne

1880-1882
health treatment for lung disease in the Swiss mountains

1887
– gold medal at the art exhibition in London’s Crystal Palace

– marriage to Wilhelmina Helene Dorothee Köller

1888
Award from the Academy of Arts in Berlin

1889
visits the World Exhibition in Paris

1889-1995
settles in Paris

1895
moves to Reiden (Lucerne)

1897-1905
teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts

– member of the Zurich Artists’ Association

1899-1901
member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission

1903- 1917
teacher at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts

– teacher at a private painting school for women in Lucerne

1905
– moved to Lucerne

– Completion of the murals ‘Gessler’s Death’ and ‘Tell’s Death’ for the Tell Chapel in Küssnacht at the Hohle Gasse

1909
founding member of the Lucerne Secession

1917
died in Lucerne, Switzerland