Painting Landscape
by Hermann Baisch
19th century

Hermann Baisch began his career in his father's lithography workshop. When he moved to Stuttgart, he became acquainted with local artists and enrolled at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts. He made study trips in 1868 and 69 to Paris and Munich. At the Musée du Louvre, he studied the Dutch painters Paulus Potter and Albert Cuyp.

Shaped by the influences of Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Constant Troyon, Jules Dupré and the landscape painting of the Barbizon school, he went to Munich in 1869 to study with Adolf Lier. His works from this period are characterized by a golden and silvery-grey hue. Together with Lier and Gustav Schönleber, he established a new genre, striking for its simple, luminous natural depiction. In 1881, he succeeded his future brother-in-law Schönleber at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught animal painting. Together with his pupils, including Théodore Haas, he painted numerous landscapes during trips to Holland.

Herman Baisch received numerous awards for his paintings. He became a regular member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and an honorary member of the Munich and Vienna Academies of Fine Arts.