Jakob Anton Bucher

Jakob Anton Bucher , also Toni Bucher (* 1927 in Hopfgarten im Brixental ; † October 7, 2012 in Vienna ), was an Austrian painter .

Life

After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a church and decorative painter with Toni Kirchmayr in Innsbruck . In 1947 he went to Vienna with his friend Ludwig Neuhauser. Both studied with Professors Sergius Pauser and Herbert Boeckl at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Bucher completed his studies with a diploma and the master class prize. During his student days he financed his life with numerous odd jobs. From 1952 Bucher was a freelance artist in Vienna. He made his living partly by copying old masters. In the early 1970s he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , of which he was vice president for two years.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1971 Vienna, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (catalog with contribution by Wilhelm Mrazek)
• 1974 Vienna, Gallery Spectrum (catalog with contribution by Paul Meissner)
• 1977 Hopfgarten, Raiffeisenbank (catalog with contribution by Gert Ammann)
• 1978 Landeck, Galerie Elefant (catalog with own quotations)
• 1981 Vienna, Künstlerhaus (catalog with contributions by Eva Badura-Triska and Peter Kodera)
• 1992 Vienna, Marschalek Gallery: "Everything ephemeral is just a parable"
• 1996 Eisenstadt, Galerie 1990: "Landscapes" (catalog with contribution by Renate Trnek)
• 2006 Purbach am Neusiedler See, cultural center
• 2010 Manzl Ainberger Gallery, Hopfgarten / Tyrol
• 2012 Museum Kitzbühel

Participation in exhibitions

• 1955 Innsbruck, Tyrolean Art Pavilion : "Bucher, Hauser, Klima"
• 1966 Paris, La Case d'Art gallery
• 1968 Vienna, Künstlerhaus: “Bucher, Hauser, Klima. Painting, graphics, plastic "
• 1969 Juvisy, 10th Salon International, "Paris-Sud"
• 1974 Vienna, Künstlerhaus: "Dimensions 1974" (catalog with contribution by Wilhelm Mrazek)
• 1977 Zurich, Helmhaus: "Structure Texture" (Austrian Society of Fine Artists, Künstlerhaus)
• 1981 Vienna, Österreichische Postsparkasse (group exhibition)
• 1983 Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts: Paul Meissner, Toni Bucher, Peter Kodera (catalog with contribution by Dieter Gleisberg)
• 1983 East Berlin, exhibition center at the television tower: "Fine arts from Austria"
• 1984 Munich, Gallery of Artists: "36 Artists from Austria - Künstlerhaus and Secession"
• 1985 Cagnes-Sur-Mer, Cháteau-Musée: "17th Festival international de la peinture"
• 1997 Vienna, Künstlerhaus: “Sensual Summer. Salon exhibition '97 "
• 1999 Neukirchen / BRD, Kulturfabrik: “fair bindings. 99. European artists in visual dialogue "

Works in collections

Marienkirche Bad Schönau

• Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck:
• Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
• Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts Federal Ministry of Finance, Vienna
• Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, City of Vienna,
• Austrian Post Savings Bank, Vienna
• Copy of the Mariahilfer image of grace in Vienna in the Marienkirche of the parish church Bad Schönau

Bibliography (selection)

• Toni Bucher. Catalog Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 1971.
• Books. Catalog Gallery Spectrum, Vienna 1975.
• Toni Bucher. Catalog Raiffeisenkasse Hopfgarten, Hopfgarten 1977.
• Toni Bucher - painting. Catalog Society of Fine Artists Austria, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1981.
• Dieter Gleisberg, Paul Meissner, Toni Bucher, Peter Kodera. In: Meissner, Bucher, Kodera. Catalog Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Vienna 1983.
• Herbert Fuchs, Bucher, Jakob Anton (Toni). In: The Austrian painters of the 20th century, Vienna 1985, K 118, figs. 154–156.
• Catalog Jakob Anton Bucher, works from 1994–1996, Vienna 1996.
• Catalog Jakob Anton Bucher, Landscapes 1976–1996, Vienna 1996.
• with Gert Ammann : Jakob Anton Bucher. Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-85256-526-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jakob Anton Bucher in the catalog of the German National Library