Donald Baechler Biography
Hartford, Connecticut (USA) 1956
Celebrated American artist Donald Baechler is increasing recognized as a powerful presence in the contemporary art world. His paintings are rendered with a conscious sense of naivite which combine a childish innocence with a stealth sophistication. His trademark surfaces are thick and intensely worked. Critics have stated his work "places him in the painterly tribe of Twombly, Ryman, Rauschenberg and Schwitters."
Baechler studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,Cooper Union in New York, and the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Frankfurt, Germany.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; ?Donald Baechler: York House Suite?
Baron/Boisante, New York; ?Donald Baechler: Large Works on Paper 1984-1994?
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City NY; with Saint Clair Cemin
Bernd Klueser, Munich, Germany; ?Black Flowers?
Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand; ?Paintings & Works on Paper?
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; ?Donald Baechler: Fish & Wildlife?
Tony Shafrazi, New York; ?Donald Baechler: Selected Early Paintings?
Paul Kasmin, New York; ?Works on Paper?
Adolf Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany; ?Donald Baechler: Neue Arbeiten?
Milleventi, Turin, Italy; ?Donald Baechler ?Yankee Pieces? Torino?
1996
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
1997
Harley Baldwin, Aspen ; ?New Flowers?
Tony Shafrazi, New York; ?Flowers?
Paul Kasmin, New York; ?One Very Large Painting & One Very Large Bust?
Anders Tornberg, Lund; ?21 Paintings?
Galleria Milleventi, Milan Studio d?Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; ?Works on Paper?
1998
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA; ?Works on Paper?
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; ?Crowds?
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; ?Neue Bilder?
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ?New Paintings?
Baron/Boisante, New York; ?twenty-one etchings?
Galeria 56, Budapest, Hungary
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
1999
Cheim & Read, New York; ?Crowd Paintings?
Tony Shafrazi, New York; ?Paintings from Kunsthalle, Basel?
Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis MO; ?New Work?
Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels; ?Collage Paintings?
Baron/Boisante, New York; ?New Color Aquatints?
Bernd Klueser, Munich; ?Recent Paintings?
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; ?Sculptures & Drawings?
Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo; ?New Paintings?
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; ?Donald Baechler?
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; ?Globes and More?
2000
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY; ?Donald Baechler: new paintings?
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; ?Buildings and Other New Paintings?
Pace/Prints, New York; ?Recent Editions?
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; ?Donald Baechler?
2001
Tony Shafrazi, New York; ?Five Easy Pieces?
Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin; ?Donald Baechler?
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; ?Oeuvres Recentes?
Studio d?Arte Raffaelli, Trento; ?Some of My Subjects?
2002
Galleria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
John Berggruen, San Francisco; ?Principal & Auxillary Functions: Some Recent Pictures?
Galleria d?Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino, Italy; ?77 Paintings?
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Alain Noirhomme, Brussels
2003
Cheim & Read, New York; ?Donald Baechler?
Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich; ?Recent Paintings?
Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston: ?Thinking Without Words?
2004
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen; ?New Work?
Cardi, Milan; ?Donald Baechler?
Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium; ?Donald Baechler: New Paintings?
Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg; ?Sculptures?
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; ?Donald Baechler: New Paintings and Sculptures?
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; ?Sculptures?
2005 Cheim & Read, New York; ?Sculpture?
Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy; ?The Enemies of the Rose?
SELECTED MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Centre George Pompidou, Musee
National d?Art Moderne, Paris
Musee d?Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Budapest
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Stadtische Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg, Germany
Lehnbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Musee Strassbourg, France
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, California
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida