Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956 and came of age as a painter in the early 1980s when he began exhibiting internationally. Critics have stated that Donald Baechler’s work “places him in the painterly tribe of Twombly, Ryman, Rauschenberg and Schwitters.”
Donald Baechler
Biography
Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956 and came of age as a painter in the early 1980s when he began exhibiting internationally. Critics have stated that Donald Baechler’s work “places him in the painterly tribe of Twombly, Ryman, Rauschenberg and Schwitters.” Baechler works from his great inventory of worldly images. Recorded on slides and collected in the archives of his enormous Lower Manhattan studio, they are the sources for many of the compelling images in his paintings and graphic work. The cast of characters, which also includes himself, come from every source imaginable, and are stamped, silk-screened, projected, drawn, painted, printed or collaged onto surfaces. Then the process begins: underpainting, overpainting, canceling, adding, subtracting, editing until the final work emerges. Baechler has also worked extensively in the graphic medium. Donald Baechler has a large international following and his work can be seen in museums throughout the world.
Donald Baechler died suddenly in New York City in April of 2022.
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, “Donald Baechler Early Works”
Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Donald Baechler – ‘New Works’
2015
McClain Gallery, Houston, Donald Baechler: “The Planet of Memory”
Pace Prints, New York, Donald Baechler
2007
Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis “No Need To Shout”: Flower Paintings
Museum Moderner Kunst Karnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria “Donald Baechler – New Works”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Oeuvres sur Papier, Paris
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento “New Works”
Museo Forte Strino – Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Vermiglio, Italy “A Farewell to Arms”
2006
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Cheim & Read Gallery, New York City
Clasa de ra Regoles – Museo Rimoldi, in collaboration with Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Cortina d’Ampezzo
2005
Kunst Meran, Merano
Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich
Cheim & Read Gallery, New York City
2004
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen “New Work”
Galleria 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”
2003 Cheim & Read, New York “Donald Baechler”
Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich “Recent Paintings”
Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston “Thinking Without Words”
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
2001
Tony Shafrazi, New York “Five Easy Pieces”
Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin “Donald Baechler”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris “Oeuvres R’centes”
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento “Some of My Subjects”
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”
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/Boisant?, 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”
