Emanuel Bachrach-Barée
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Emanuel Bachrach-Barée was a German
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 painter
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Life

Bachrach-Barée was born in Oderberg
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 in Austrian Silesia
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 in 1863 to a Jewish family.

He was a self-taught artist. In 1885 he settled in Munich
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. Since 1890 his paintings were represented in the Munich Glaspalast at the exhibitions of the Luitpold-Gruppe, an association of artists, which stood for moderately modern aspirations with high artistic quality. Occasionally he also exhibited in Berlin
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, e.g. at the International Art Exhibition of 1891 and the Grand Art Exhibition of 1893. Bachrach-Barée also worked as an illustrator for German newspapers. Into old age, he worked with unbroken creativity. In the years 1931 and 1932 his paintings were still on display at the art exhibitions of the Deutsches Museum
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 in Munich. Because of his Jewish origin, he was imposed a working and sales ban by the German authorities in 1936.

Emanuel Bachrach-Barée died in Munich in 1943.

Both his sons, Hellmut Bachrach-Barée (1898-1964) and Hans Bachrach (1900-?), were painters.
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