Friedrich Busack

Self-portrait , oil on cardboard, in the late 1920s verso handwritten "BUSACK" means, 42.5 × 31 cm

Friedrich Franz Ludwig Heinrich "Fritz" Busack (born January 3, 1899 in Hanover ; † January 5, 1933 there ) was a German painter, a representative of the Hanover Secession and the New Objectivity .

Live and act

Born at the time of the German Empire as the son of a typesetter , Fritz Busack spent his childhood and youth in Engelbosteler Damm 21 (today: house number 40).

After the First World War , he took part in the first exhibition of the Hanover Secession in the premises of the Kestner Society as a teenager in 1918 , although he only attended the local arts and crafts school from 1919 . As a student of the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler who worked there and the painter Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld , Busack made the acquaintance of artists such as Grethe Jürgens , Gerta Overbeck-Schenk , Ernst Thoms and Erich Wegner in the graphics class and recognized the spirit of New Objectivity early on. This "art movement of the 1920s, which was thematically closely related to society during the Weimar Republic [...] had a great interest in the realities of life in the city and in the little things of everyday life. She was on the trail of a typology with the help of which social conditions, political and economic contexts became just as visible as the topography of the growing industrial cities . "

An "evening village street" that has not yet been located , exhibited in the autumn exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover in 1925

Busack's works such as oil paintings , watercolors , portrait drawings, self-portraits as well as motifs from Hanover and the wider area of ​​the city were shown in the early secession exhibitions and from 1925 also in the autumn exhibitions of the Kunstverein Hannover . Hartmut Klauss wrote about the work "Abendliche Dorfstraße", which was shown there at that time, a place that has not yet been specified, probably from the (today's) Hanover region :

“Buildings and figures were statically composed into the picture in an old master layer painting ; the light, evenly distributed, seems to come from an imaginary space. These peculiarities lead to a very unique image magic , which determines the special charm of these rare paintings from the narrow oeuvre of Friedrich Busack. "

Together with works by twenty other artists, Busack's works were represented at an exhibition of the German "New Objectivity" in Amsterdam in 1929 .

Friedrich Busack died two days after his 34th birthday in 1933 of complications from tuberculosis .

Works

A large part of Friedrich Busack's work can now be found in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and in the possession of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation .

Honors

• In 2003 a street in the Hanover district of List was named after Friedrich Busack.

Literature (selection)

• General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 15, pp. 295f.
• Ludwig Zerull (red., Layout), Günter Barz, Michael Herling (photos): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity , accompanying document to the (traveling) exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hanover , the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hanover , Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, self-published, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991, passim
• Antje Döring: Friedrich (Fritz) Busack , in Christian Fuhrmeister (ed.): “The strongest expression of our days”, new objectivity in Hanover , catalog for the exhibition from December 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2001, ISBN 3-487-11440-2 , pp. 239f .; contents
• Hugo Thielen : BUSACK, Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 80.
• Hugo Thielen: Busack, Fritz. 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 , p. 101.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Busack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• NN : The donation "New Objectivity Collection" from the Sparkasse Hannover on the sprengel-museum.de site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literature by and about Friedrich Busack in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hugo Thielen : BUSACK, Fritz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 80
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Robert Ketterer (responsible): Auction: 298 / Sideways of the German avant-garde on December 5, 2005 / Lot: 11 / Busack, Friedrich / Self-portrait / Proceeds (including 19% buyers premium): EUR 1,904 / EUR 2,494 $ / estimate: 2,000 EUR / 2,620 $ on the side kettererkunst.de , accessed on 25 October 2014
4. ↑ NN : The donation "Sammlung Neue Sachlichkeit" from the Sparkasse Hannover ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page sprengel-museum.de 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Hartmut Klauss (responsible): Friedrich Busack - evening village street on the page paintgallery.de ; online , accessed October 25, 2014
6. ^ ^{A b} Hugo Thielen: Busack, Fritz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 101