Attributed to Donald Baechler, no coa, private collection, medium: mixed media, measurements: 31"WX37"H framed, good condition Biography: Donald Baechler was an American painter and sculptor associated with 1980s Neo-expressionism. He had lived in Manhattan and Stephentown, New York. Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to parents Marjorie (née Dolliver), a journalist and quilter, and Henry Jules Baechler, an accountant.[1][2] He was one of four children raised in a Quaker family. Baechler was interested in art at a young age, after his mother died, and started painting in collaboration with his maternal grandmother, who was a painter.[1] He attended Westtown School, a Quaker private school, for his last three years of high school. Westtown had an effective art department, and while at Westtown Baechler determined to be an artist.Baechler attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1974 to 1977, studying for his B.F.A. in Painting, and Cooper Union from 1977 to 1978 for his M.F.A. Dissatisfied with New York City, he proceeded to the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.