Carl Buchheister

Carl Buchheister (also: Karl Buchheister ; born October 17, 1890 in Hanover ; † February 2, 1964 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist , relief artist and university teacher .

life and work

The "Carl Buchheister, Tapisserie - Manufactur " had its seat from 1868 to 1896 at Kniehauerstraße 24

The company, located at Grupenstrasse 24 (later: Karmarschstrasse ) from 1896, was the largest company of its kind in Germany in the 1920s with around 100 employees

Carl Buchheister's parents, Wilhelm and Luise Buchheister, owned a handicraft shop in Hanover. He had three younger siblings, two sisters and one brother. Even at school, Carl drew attention to himself with his talent for painting and design. In 1910 he graduated from the Leibniz School in Hanover. At the request of his father, who hoped that the eldest son would take over the business, Carl began a commercial apprenticeship in a retail store in Bremen in 1910 . In the evening he attended the arts and crafts school . Carl really wanted to become a painter, which led to an argument with his father. Eventually, however, he gave consent to study. In 1913 Carl Buchheister attended the teaching facility of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin .

After the First World War, Carl lived as a freelance painter in Hanover. After humble beginnings, Carl Buchheister catapulted himself into the front row of the German avant-garde under the influence of Wassily Kandinsky and Kurt Schwitters . Buchheister has been creating constructivist pictures and plastic objects since 1925 . In 1926 Buchheister had his first solo exhibition in Herwarth Walden's gallery “Der Sturm” in Berlin. In 1927 and 1929 he made his artistic breakthrough. With Kurt Schwitters, Rudolf Jahns , Hans Nitzschke and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , he founded the artist group “ die abstract hannover ” in 1927 . From 1933 to 1936 he was also a member of the Paris artist group “ Abstraction-Création ”.

After 1933 Buchheister, like almost all modern artists, was considered "degenerate". He had to resign his honorary posts, museums destroyed his pictures. From 1934 on he painted figuratively again: landscapes in and around Hildesheim and portraits. In 1939 he was called up to participate in World War II. During his time as a soldier in France, he continued to paint figuratively. It was only after the Second World War that Buchheister began again with abstract painting. The first pictures were taken hesitantly, and from 1949 the old Buchheister was back in full swing. The friendship with Karl Otto Götz dates from this time .

In 1959 Buchheister took part in the documenta II in Kassel . The friendship with Jaguer brought the acquaintance with other Parisian painters such as Pierre Alechinsky , Arnalt Bryen , Francis Bott , Herold and Jenkins. There were also exhibitions in Japan, South America, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, England, France, Italy and Israel.

Buchheister discovered the abundance of creative possibilities on his way. He perceived nature in the most natural way and referred to real observations and experiences in his abstract work. Buchheister's work, which is documented in an oeuvre catalog, has been recognized in several retrospectives and is represented in numerous museums.

Carl Buchheister's tombstone with an additional inscription for Elisabeth Buchheister, née Meyer (1906–1989) can be found in the Linden Bergfriedhof .

Honors

• 1960: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works (selection)

• 1927: Pink rectangle composition , oil on plywood, 118 × 77 cm, Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 2, pp. 183f.
• General Artist Lexicon, Volume 14, pp. 673f. (with bibliography)
• Kunstverein Hannover (ed.): Malewitsch – Mondrian. Construction as a concept, dedicated to Alexander Doerner , Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen, March 27 to May 1, 1977
• Uwe Hauptenthal: Carl Buchheister 1890-1964. Constructive painting and painterly abstraction. Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection. Verlag der Kunst, Husum 2005, ISBN 978-3-86530-074-4
• Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Carl Buchheister. Special house for handicrafts. Hanover, Grupenstrasse 24 , in the other: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 251
• Hugo Thielen : Buchheister, Carl , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 90; limited preview in Google Book search

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein

Web links

Commons : Carl Buchheister  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Buchheister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Exhibition in the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn August 21 - October 10, 1999
• Materials by and about Carl Buchheister in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Hugo Thielen: Buchheister, Carl , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 90; limited preview in Google Book search
2. ↑ n.v . : Buchheister, Carl in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 10, 2015, last accessed on May 7, 2019
3. ↑ Ulf Kronshage: Carl Buchheister , therein a picture of the tombstone, in Jonny Peter, Ulf Kronshage (Red.): Der Lindener Bergfriedhof (= district series "Rundgang" , volume 3), publisher: Quartier eV, Hannover: 2012, p 53f.
4. ↑ Peter Schulze : Lindener Berg district cemetery. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 593f.