Arnold Busch

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Arnold Busch (born May 5, 1876 in Grünenplan , † October 15, 1951 in Cismar ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

Arnold Busch was born in Grünenplan (now part of Delligsen ) in Lower Saxony. Due to his artistic talent, he studied art at the Academy in Dresden and was a student of Carl Bantzer and Philipp Franck . He went on study trips to Italy, Russia, France, Ceylon and India. In 1901 he received a teaching position at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau, which in 1912 awarded him the title of professor . In January 1915 he was posted to the Army High Command as a war painter. He spent the following three years mainly on the Eastern Front in various headquarters. The letters that he wrote to his wife in Breslau during this time are kept in the Stuttgart Library for Contemporary History . In 1918 he bought a house in Falkenhain near Altheide-Bad . He lived there with his family until 1946. After Germany's defeat in World War II , he had to leave the house in Falkenhain. He moved to Cismar , near the Baltic resort of Grömitz on the coast of the Bay of Lübeck, where he died in 1951.

Busch mainly painted landscapes and portraits (e.g. Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff (1916) and Joseph Goebbels (1937)) and he participated in numerous exhibitions in Breslau, Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund and Vienna. He was also a member of the Silesian Artists' Union until its dissolution in 1936.

literature

  • Aloys Bernatzky: Lexicon of the county Glatz . Marx Verlag, Leimen 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Hirschfeld et al. a. (ed.), 1918 - The Germans between World War and Revolution. Berlin 2018. p. 285.
  2. ↑ G. Hirschfeld et al. a. (ed.), 1918 - The Germans between World War and Revolution. Berlin 2018. p. 285.
  3. ↑ G. Hirschfeld et al. a. (ed.), 1918 - The Germans between World War and Revolution. Berlin 2018. p. 285.
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Green plan
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1951
Place of death Cismar