Emil Bauch

[1] His landscapes are conspicuous by his close observation of all the details and the intense variety of motifs of his palette.

[2][n 1] His works have all but disappeared in the shadow of paintings created by other artists during the second half of the nineteenth century in Brazil.

[n 2] Having arrived from Germany in 1849,[3] he first settled in Recife, a bustling city under the rule of Francisco do Rego Barros, painting so the diversity of aspects of the capital of Pernambuco.

In 1859 he won the silver medal in the General Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and struck gold in 1860.

[2] In 1865 he joins the great French landscape artist Henri Nicolas Vinet,[3] and so both began teaching painting and drawing in the studio mounted on Rua da Quitanda, 27.