Donald Baechler

(b 1956) Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Donald Baechler began his artistic studies in 1974 at the College of Art in Baltimore. He also studied at Cooper Union in New York until 1978 went he moved to the University of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, Germany. Today Baechler lives and works in New York City. He creates mixed-media, collage-like paintings which begin with found images and then get underpainted, overpainted, and edited into a final work of art. His painterly style has drawn comparisons with artists such as Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Rauschenberg and Kurt Schwitters.