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 Zurich

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

1909
founding member of the Lucerne Secession

1917
died in Lucerne, Switzerland