Background
Oskar Baetschmann was born in 1943 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Oskar Baetschmann was born in 1943 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Baetschmann studied at the Academy in Florence and at Zürich University, where he received his PhD in 1975. He then did postgraduate work in Rome, Pans and London.
He has been curator of the Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt in Zürich since 1978 and a lecturer at Universität Zürich since 1979. Baetschmann belongs to International Council of Museums (ICOM), Vereinigung der Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz (chairman) and Comité National Suisse du CIHA.