Agathe Bunz
Agathe Maria Bunz (* 1929 in Kronberg im Taunus , † 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer and painter .
life and work
After an apprenticeship in goldsmithing with a journeyman's certificate in 1950 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Bunz began studying photography and lettering at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1958. Her husband Werner Bunz taught there as a lecturer in font graphics. Agathe Bunz was a photo reporter for the magazine “ Kristall. The extraordinary illustrated "from the publishing house Axel Springer in Hamburg from 1962 until the discontinuation of the illustrated in 1966 active. Her focus at “Kristall” was art history.
From 1967 Agathe Bunz moved the center of her life to the Greek island of Lesbos and settled in Mytilene as a painter until 1987. Her paintings, mostly made in oil, mainly show landscape motifs from the island of Lesbos. Agathe Bunz spent the last two decades of her life in Hamburg again.
She died there in 2006 at the age of 77.
Exhibitions
- 1981: Agathe Bunz - Lesbos, Landscapes, exhibition from April 28th - June 30th 1981 Glyptothek Munich , Munich
- 1981: Agathe Bunz - exhibition, "Lesbos. Landscapes", until June 28, 1981 in the gallery in the town hall, Berlin-Tempelhof
- 1985: Agathe Bunz - Exhibition, Overbeck Society Lübeck
- 1989: Agathe Bunz - exhibition, Hamburg casino
literature
- Agathe Bunz, Platero and his friends , Munich , Verlag Heinrich Ellermann 1962
- Agathe and Werner Bunz, Olive Trees , Hamburg, Friedrich Wittig 1968
- Peter Heigl , photographs by Agathe Bunz, The Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg. Christmas magic 50 years ago , Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 9783000317781
- Dorothée Engel, Peter Heigl, Hamburger Wasserwelten. Alster - Fleete - Elbe . Photographs by Agathe Bunz from the 1960s, Erfurt Sutton Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-705-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Agathe Bunz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Agathe Bunz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data from Agathe Bunz
- ↑ Agathe Bunz - Lesbos, Landscapes, exhibition from April 28th-30th. June 1981 in Glyptothek Munich
- ↑ Agathe Bunz - Lesvos, Landscapes, exhibition until June 28, 1981 in the Galerie im Rathaus, Berlin-Tempelhof in Philobiblon: a quarterly journal for book and graphic collectors: Volume 25, by Ernst L. Hauswedell, Maximilian Society, 1981 , Page 128
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bunz, Agathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bunz, Agathe Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronberg im Taunus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2006 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |