Hermann Busse (artist)

Hermann Busse (born February 25, 1883 in Lütkendorf ; † January 8, 1970 in Heilbronn ) was a German painter .

Life

Busse was born as the fourth and last child of the carpenter Wilhelm Busse and his wife Wilhelmine nee. Thurmann born. He attended elementary school in Lütkendorf and then went through a seven-year painting apprenticeship in Putlitz , during which he specialized in decorative wall painting. After completing his apprenticeship, he went on a two-year educational trip through Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, mostly on foot, in 1906/07. From 1907 to 1912 he lived alternately in Berlin , where he tried to build up his own artistic existence, and in Lütkendorf, where he supported his elderly parents. In addition to the Berlin painter atelier E. Delorette, he also worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. He received the Silver Medal for three of his paintings at the Perleberg anniversary trade exhibition in 1911.

With support from the Knighthood Director von Freier, he received a subsidy from the Brandenburg Provincial Committee of 1,000 gold marks, which enabled him to enroll at the Berlin School of Fine Arts in 1914 . His academic training was interrupted from 1915 to 1919 when he was called up as a reserve reservist for the Navy. In 1919 he resumed his studies with Professor Arthur Krapf, and in 1920 he was a master student of Professor Olof Jernberg . Study tours have taken him to Thuringia in 1919 and 1920 to Württemberg, where he in Jagstfeld his future wife, the daughter of the innkeeper in Jagst fields inn Beautiful views met. In future he spent the summers in Jagstfeld and the winter months in Berlin.

He took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1921, 1922 and 1924 before moving to his wife in Jagstfeld in 1924 as a result of the economic crisis. In 1925, 1926 and 1928 he took part in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace , and in 1930 he opened his own exhibition rooms in Jagstfeld. In the 1930s there were several group and solo exhibitions of his works. He became a member of the Heilbronner Künstlerbund and painted together with Wilhelm Schäffer . After 1933 Busse was also a member of the council of the newly formed community of Bad Friedrichshall and was temporarily one of the deputies of Mayor Wilhelm Auwärter, who was murdered in 1943, before he was assigned to military service. Due to the effects of the war, parts of his early works in Berlin were partially destroyed in 1944, and the inn in Jagstfeld in 1945. After the war, his restored studio and exhibition rooms were used as accommodation for refugees, whereupon Busse began to paint, especially in the great outdoors.

In 1953 he took part in a group exhibition at the Württemberg Art Association in Stuttgart and Heilbronn. In 1955 he founded the Jagstfelder Kreis , a loose artists' association to which his daughter Hannelore Bendixen-Busse (Hal Busse) and the painters Hermine Fischer-Meissner , Robert Förch , Emil Hafenmeister , Romanus Korsitzky , Friedrich Knödler and Hans Schreiner also belonged. In 1960 he had to give up his rooms in the Gasthof Schöne Aussicht, which was divided into several owners, and moved to Heilbronn. In 1963 the Kunstverein Heilbronn organized a retrospective of buses for his 80th birthday. He died on January 8, 1970 in Heilbronn after a serious ear problem. A commemorative exhibition took place in the historical museum of the city of Heilbronn in 1971, in 1980 the city ​​museums of Heilbronn showed another exhibition of the painter's work.

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The work of Hermann Busses consists predominantly of landscapes. He found the motives for this in his living environment, mostly in northern Germany until around 1920, then mostly in the area around Jagstfeld. With a few exceptions, his works are oil paintings, which are characterized by the spirited, pasty application of paint. In his later years he painted still lifes with flowers in addition to landscapes.

literature

• Nature in color. Hermann Busse 1883–1970 . City Museums Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1980 ( Heilbronn Museum Catalog No. 11)
• Literature by and about Hermann Busse in the catalog of the German National Library