B. 1956 - Artist Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956. Baechler came of age as a painter in the early 1980s when he began exhibiting internationally. Critics have stated that Donald Baechler's work "places him in the painterly tribe of Twombly, Ryman, Rauschenberg and Schwitters."

Baechler works from his great inventory of worldly images. Recorded on slides and collected in the archives. This is the foundation for many of the compelling images in his paintings and graphic work. The cast of characters, which, also includes himself, come from every source imaginable. Donald Baechler media is stamped, silk-screened, projected, drawn, painted, printed or collaged onto surfaces. Baechler has also worked extensively in the graphic medium. Donald Baechler has a large international following and Baechler work can be seen in museums throughout the world. Donald Baechler's work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.