Franz Bader was born in Austria in 1903 and died in Washington 14 September 1994. He came to Washington in 1939, and first worked at the Whyte book shop and gallery, where he later became a partner. In 1952 he established a gallery and bookstore under his own name at 17th and G Streets, N.W. The business moved to several other locations, and was sold by Mr. Bader to two longtime employees when he retired in 1986. His first wife, Antonia, died in 1967. He married Virginia F. Bader when he was 67 years old.