Harry Maximilian Buchberger

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Harry Maximilian Buchberger (born August 25, 1923 in Breslau ; † February 16, 2013 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German silver and goldsmith as well as a sculptor , medalist and founder of a foundation .

Life

The Loccum abbot Gerhard Wolter Molanus (1633–1722), founder of the Guelph coin collection ; Replica of a death medal created by Ehrenreich Hannibal in 1722 by Harry Maximilian Buchberger for the Nord / LB , exhibited in the Lower Saxony Coin Cabinet in the Lower Saxony State Museum

Born at the time of the Weimar Republic in what was then Breslau in Silesia and grew up during the National Socialist era , Harry Maximilian Buchberger suffered a serious war wound as a young man in World War II . He then completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith and silversmith in order to study at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau from 1953 to 1956 in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany . Also first in Hanau in 1956, he opened his own atelier for sacred and profane equipment , relocated it to West Berlin in 1973 and after another seven years moved to Meersburg on Lake Constance , where he lived and worked until 2000.

From Meersburg, Buchberger took part in medal exhibitions of the Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art (FIDEM) in 1992 in London and 1996 in Neuchâtel .

Buchberger last lived in Kleinmachnow near Berlin. After the medal he made was awarded the second prize of the “Johann Veit Döll” engraving prize by the city of Suhl on the anniversary of the University of Wroclaw in 2004 and Buchberger was honored with the gold medal of the University of Wroclaw in the following year, in 2007, a few years before his death, the Harry Maximilian Buchberger Foundation , initially named after him, for the promotion of the German-Polish Society of the University of Wroclaw eV , now known as the Leopoldina Foundation for short .

Works (selection)

  • 1969: 60 years of Hangelar Airfield , August 30/31, 1969 ; Medallion (in variants) made by Hoffstätter in Bonn ; on the front with a flying person stylized as an Icarus
  • 1969, 1970 [und n.d., 1971]: 20th German Aerobatic Championship Giebelstadt September 11th - 14th , plaque (double-sided) with partly geometrical-constructive forms with different colored enamelled fields, artist's signature HMB

literature

  • Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten , Issue 15, 1980, p. 60
  • In the series Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland :
    • Vol. 4 (1996), pp. 78-79
    • Vol. 10 (1999), p. 81.
    • Ulf Dräger (Ed.), Vol. 23 (2007), p. 132
  • Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , part 2. (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , volume 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 16 (with 4 images); PDF

Web links

Commons : Harry Maximilian Buchberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , part 2. (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde eV , volume 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 16 (with 4 images); PDF ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Compare the text that opens via the menu item i (for information ) in Bernhard Weisser, Karsten Dahmen (Red.): Buchberger, Harry Maximilian: Annual Medal Society for International Monetary History 1980 ... on the website of the Münzkabinett Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Buchberger, Harry Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silver and goldsmith as well as sculptor, medalist and founder of the foundation
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2013
Place of death Kleinmachnow