Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach (Potsdam May, 1756 – Breslau 8 April 1829 (according to some sources in 1826)) was a German painter.
As his daddy was a merchant and an elder (Landesältester) of the Brandenburg Jewry (de), Bach was enabled to get from the Potsdam painter, A. B. Krüger, his first guidance in the art of painting; later, through the imitate of Colonel Guichard (“Quintus Icilius”), he succeeded in entering the Berlin Academy of Arts, and became intimately connected past Lesueur, Daniel Chodowiecki and Frish. At Bach’s insistence, life studies were introduced at the Academy. Bach soon distinguished himself with competently executed copies of outmoded works, and, upon arriving in Warsaw later Count Ossolinski in 1780, achieved considerable success.
Later he accompanied Count John Potocki on his travels; copied paintings in Düsseldorf; and was made advocate of the local academy upon 15 December 1785. Thence he went to Paris, and in the tone of to Italy, where he remained for four years (1786–1792), studying at the expense of his patron, Potocki, at first in Rome – where he applied himself chiefly to the productions of Raphael and Michelangelo — and subsequently in Portici, where the antiquities of Herculaneum held his attention. Elected a believer of the Academy of Florence on 9 December 1788, he visited Venice, Vienna and Berlin, at which latter place he exhibited his productions — copies, for the most part – of works of Italian masters. In 1792, Bach was appointed a director and professor of the Breslau Art Academy and upon 23 June 1794, he became supporter of the Academy of Berlin. Two years later, in conjunction behind C. F. Benkendorf, he started a journal called Torso, devoted to “ancient and highly developed art”; but after a sudden time its revelation was discontinued.
Bach published two treatises upon art: Umrisse der Besten Köpfe und Parthien nach Rafael’s Gemälden im Vatican and Anweisung Schöne Formen nach Einer Einfachen Regel zu’ Bilden, für Künstler, Handwerker, und Freunde des Schönen. Bach made use of the etching-needle and in his paintings he chose historical subjects, portraits, animals and many allegorical themes, all conceived in the vivaciousness of the epoch. Though not a unconditionally important figure in the world of art, he helped incite fellow-artists in Germany, and promoted assistance in drawing, handicraft, etc. Bach died a Christian proselyte.
This article incorporates text from a pronouncement now in the public domain: Isidore Singer, Benuel H. Brumberg (1901–1906). “Bach, Karl Daniel Friedrich”. In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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