Hans Bucher (painter, 1929)

Hans Gregor Bucher (* 1929 in Fridingen on the Danube ; † October 6, 2002 in Sigmaringen ) was a German painter , master painter , restorer and innkeeper at Scharf-Eck in Fridingen. He was a local researcher and monument conservator as well as the initiator of the Fridinger Heimatmuseum, which was newly built in Ifflinger Schloss , and was its honorary director for decades. He was both a local and traditional curator as well as a fighter for issues of nature and monument protection. He laid the foundation stone for the natural stage in Steintäle , drew stage sets, directed many plays and enjoyed acting in the theater himself. He was a vehement opponent when it came to demolishing old half-timbered houses in the 1970s. Hans Bucher is mainly known as the painter of the Upper Danube Valley .

Life

Hans Bucher comes from the Bucher family of artists. His uncle was the Fridingen draftsman, painter and book illustrator Franz Xaver Bucher (1899–1959), the "Eck-Xaver", as the Fridingers called him.

From 1949 Bucher had studied at the famous Bernstein School , a private art school in the former Bernstein Abbey near Sulz am Neckar . He was later a master student of Hermann Sohn at the Stuttgart Art Academy and finally a student at the Munich Art Academy . He was familiar with the tendencies and style developments of the post-war period , but developed his own artistic identity early on by turning away from the academy.

Hans Bucher was interested in contemporary abstract art, but clearly distanced. After completing his studies, he returned to his home town of Fridingen in 1955, where he moved into one of the most beautiful and oldest town houses in the city, the “Scharf Eck”. It was here that he discovered and deepened his love of landscape painting, that genre of art that was often said to be dead at the time and which, as one of the last, was to give Bucher another convincing strength at the end of the 20th century.

Here he also had his studio, a frame and gilding workshop and an inn. Between 1956 and 1996 Bucher reacted to the sensory impressions in the Danube Valley with powerfully colorful oil paintings. Until his death on October 6, 2002, he worked as an artist, master painter and restorer.

Works

Bucher's impressive artistic life's work came about in secret. It was only in his later years that he became known to a larger audience as a painter of the Danube Valley. With his expressive-realistic pictures, Bucher, like hardly any other artist of his generation, has given landscape painting, which had already been believed to be forgotten, a new luster and convincing power. In addition to motifs from the upper Danube valley and the Hegau , it was also the hometown of Fridingen that inspired Bucher to create artistic designs for many decades. Many of his unmistakable Fridinger views have been on display in the museum's permanent exhibition since the Scharf Eck artist house opened in 2008.

Appreciation

After Hans Bucher's death, the “Scharf Eck” was empty. That is why the heirs founded the Hans Bucher Foundation together with the city of Fridingen . Since then, the “Scharf Eck” has been open to the public as a museum. On three floors the visitor gets an insight into the artist family Bucher, who lived in the "Scharf Eck" for three generations.

In the artist's house Scharf Eck , which opened as a museum in 2007 and is mainly dedicated to the life and work of Hans Bucher, a small room in the permanent exhibition also commemorates his uncle, the illustrator Franz Xaver Bucher.

In addition to gallery rooms, it is above all living, studio and workshop rooms that have been left authentic and, last but not least, the rustic inn on the ground floor that determine the charm of this atmospheric artist's house as a “total work of art”.

literature

• Gabriele Frommer: The painter Hans Bucher. typodruck - Gagstatter, Tuttlingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-98034-807-2 .
• Armin Heim: The artist house Scharf Eck Fridingen aD , ed. v. Hans Bucher Foundation, Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-89977-514-3 .

Web links

• Homepage of the "Scharfeck" museum in Fridingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fridingen has been an artist town for centuries . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from August 25, 2008
2. ↑ The Upper Danube as an artist's view . In: Südkurier of March 8, 2005
3. ↑ Contribution to the local anniversary . In: Südkurier of July 13, 2011
4. ↑ Exhibition commemorates Franz-Xaver Bucher. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of July 17, 2009