Alfred Bühler (artist)

The harmony with the facade relief by Alfred Bühler in uncovered concrete "Béton brut"

Alfred Bühler , also Fred Bühler , (born January 1, 1920 in Brackenheim , † 1991 in Bergrothenfels ) was a German artist who created facade reliefs as art in architecture , but also created smaller objects.

Life

Bühler was born in Brackenheim in 1920 and attended the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn . After work and military service, he was taken prisoner of war. In 1946 he began studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . As a student of Hils, Baum and Heim, he took part in the X. Triennale in Milan in 1951 and then other international exhibitions, which quickly gave him public commissions, especially reliefs in the context of art in architecture , which gave him an existence as a freelance sculptor and graphic designers at his place of birth. He joined the Künstlerbund Heilbronn and, after living rather withdrawn from 1960, was again present in public with exhibitions from 1970. In 1972 he moved to Bergrothenfels, where he died in 1991.

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Above all, Bühler has created Christian-inspired works of stone.

• The Heilbronn Municipal Museums have various works from Bühler's student days. His figures such as Paar (1950) and Jonas (1950) describe a Christian theme and show expressionist forms. The later work Give and Take (1952) is irrelevant.

• The cast stone relief for the facade of the main customs office in Heilbronn (1952) with the theme "Overcoming the Boundaries" shows two pairs of figures handing over a package. The figures are still influenced by Expressionism at the beginning of the 20th century, but already show the neo-Romanesque simplification that was common in the 1950s.

• Relief at the Steinbeis Master School in Stuttgart (1956)

• The facade relief on the Heilbronner Harmonie designed by the architect Kurt Marohn (1958), which was inaugurated on November 29, 1958 with a ceremony. Other artists such as Peter Jakob Schober and Hannelore Bendixen-Busse also contributed to the design of the building . Bühler received an artist fee of 4,000 DM for his façade relief in concrete.

• Wooden relief of the funeral hall in Stetten am Heuchelberg (1964)

• Wall of peace. in Frommern (1968)

literature

• Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s. The art scene in Heilbronn in the 1950s. Situations from everyday life, traffic and architecture in Heilbronn in the 50s. Harwalik, Reutlingen 1993, ISBN 3-921638-43-7 . (Heilbronn museum catalog, 43rd series Städtische Galerie)
• 30 years Künstlerbund Heilbronn, summer exhibition 1979. Heilbronn 1979, DNB 800650492 , p. 46/47.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pfeiffer, p. 153, biography of Alfred Bühler and Alfred Bühler, exhibition catalog of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, 1970.
2. ^ Pfeiffer, p. 89, fig. 116 Alfred Bühler, Jonas, 1950, sandstone, 80 × 32 × 24 cm, Städtische Museen Heilbronn.
3. ↑ Pfeiffer, p. 89, Fig. 118 Alfred Bühler, giving and taking, 1952, sandstone, 17.5 × 14 × 10 cm, private property.
4. ↑ Pfeiffer, p. 90, Fig. 119 Alfred Bühler, "Overcoming the Limits", 1956, stone cast, width 120 cm, main customs office, front page.
5. ↑ Inauguration of Harmony . In: Uwe Jacobi: That was the 20th century in Heilbronn. Wartberg, Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-86134-703-2 , p. 62.
6. ↑ Pfeiffer, p. 95, Fig. 127 Alfred Bühler with a model for the harmony facade and Fig. 128 Alfred Bühler, facade relief, 1958, concrete casting, town hall Harmonie, Heilbronn