Hugo Baar
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| caption = Hugo Baar, c. 1900/05
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|03|3|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Nový Jičín, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{death date and age|1912|06|18|1873|03|3|mf=y}}
| death_place = Munich, German Empire
| field = Painting
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| education = Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Hugo Baar (3 March 1873, Nový Jičín – 18 June 1912, Munich) was a Moravian-German landscape painter.
Biography
His father was a merchant. After attending a German gymnasium, he learned weaving at a local arts and crafts school from 1889 to 1892. Later, he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied with the landscape painter, Rudolf Ribarz, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his primary instructors were Gabriel von Hackl and Heinrich Knirr.[http://galerieosobnosti.muzeumnj.cz/hugo-baar Brief biography] @ Galerie Osobností.
In 1903, he married the daughter of a hat factory manager and had his first showing in Vienna, where he participated in an exhibition staged by the Hagenbund and became a member of that group. The following year, he had a solo exhibition in Olomouc, near his birthplace. After resettling there, he made the acquaintance of Bohumír Jaroněk, a member of the "Association of Moravian Artists" (SVUM) who enabled him to exhibit with that organization. In 1907, he was one of the founding members of the local Museum Association.
He also exhibited in Brno with the "Mährischer Kunstverein", the German equivalent of the SVUM. At this time, he came under the influence of Gustav Klimt and was associated with the Vienna Secession. Later he helped establish the "Association of German-Moravian Visual Artists" in Brno and became its Vice-Chairman. The Chairman was Hugo Charlemont, but Baar organized all of the group's activities.
In 1910, he travelled extensively throughout Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. He died suddenly in 1912, while working on a contract for lithographs, in Munich.
Selected paintings
Hugo Baar - Eine Wiesenlandschaft mit Bauernhof.jpg|Meadow Landscape
with Farm
File:Hugo Baar - Zimní krajina.jpg|Winter Landscape
Hugo Baar - Gebirgsweg in den Beskiden.jpg|Mountain Path in the Beskids
Baar-hugo-1873-1912-austria-vecerni-nalada.jpg|Evening Mood
References
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Further reading
- Eva Trnková, Hugo Baar: Obrazy (exhibition catalog), Muzeum Novojičínska, 1993
External links
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- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/hugo-baar/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Baar.]
- [http://abart-full.artarchiv.cz/osoby.php?IDosoby=13778 Hugo Baar] @ abART
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Category:People from Nový Jičín
Category:Artists from the Margraviate of Moravia
Category:Moravian-German people
Category:Austrian landscape painters
Category:19th-century Austrian painters
Category:19th-century Austrian male artists
Category:Members of the Vienna Secession
Category:Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni