Hugo Baar (3 March 1873, Nový Jičín – 18 June 1912, Munich) was a Moravian-German landscape painter.

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.

[1] 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.

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.