Jan Buck

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Jan Buck (Sorbian Jan Buk ; born August 2, 1922 in Nebelschütz / Njebjelčicy , † April 1, 2019 in Crostwitz / Chrósćicy ) was one of the most important Sorbian painters of modern times.

biography

After completing school, Buck learned the profession of decorative painter from 1937 to 1940 . Between 1941 and 1945 he did his military service in the German Wehrmacht . From 1949 to 1950 Buck studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Breslau / Wrocław, from 1950 to 1953 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden . From 1953 Buck worked as a freelance artist in Bautzen for more than 40 years and made a decisive contribution to shaping the city's cultural scene. He became a member of the circle of Sorbian visual artists and joined the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From 1956 to 1976 he worked as an art teacher in today's Bautzen Sorbian High School . From 1980 to 1989 he worked as a teacher at the Bautzen evening school (Nadelwitz branch). In 1996 Jan Buck moved back to his parents' house in Nebelschütz, where he has lived and worked ever since. Buck spent his last years in a nursing home in Crostwitz .

Buck went on various study trips, including a. to the Soviet Union ( Uzbekistan ) and to Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy and France.

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According to the director of the Sorbian Museum , Tomasz Nawka, Buck was “the most important contemporary Sorbian painter. His painting lifted the Sorbian visual arts for the first time from a self-satisfied, historically determined folkloric point of view and opened up new dimensions for them Lusatia remained connected and he clearly acknowledged his homeland and his Sorbian origins. A large part of his work deals with the mining landscape of lignite in the Lusatian lignite district . Even still life have been edited frequently in his work. In the late work a turn to abstraction is clearly recognizable.

His work has also received several awards beyond the borders of the region.

Awards

Jan Buck was awarded the Domowina Prize (1970), the Ćišinski Prize (1986), the Hans Grundig Medal (1988), the Bautzen Art Prize (1994) and the Upper Lusatia Art Prize (1995).

In August 2007 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Bautzen. Buck was therefore the first Sorbe and also the first painter to become an honorary citizen of Bautzen.

Works (selection)

  • 1971 Face of the Working Class , Oil, National Gallery Berlin-East
  • 1978 The visit , oil, National Gallery Berlin-East
  • 1981 Bautzen , Oil, City Museum Bautzen
  • 1982 Seated Sorbin in festive costume , oil, private property, Berlin
  • 1986 Opencast mine with conveyor bridge , oil, Museum of Young Art, Frankfurt (Oder)

Approx. 1000 works in oils, watercolors, etchings, lithographs, graphics.

Exhibitions

1971 Halle (Saale) 1974 Dresden 1974 Bautzen 1975 Cottbus 1976 Berlin 1981 Bautzen, EA 1982 Wrocław, EA 1982 Görlitz, EA 1982 Dresden, EA 1982 Hoyerswerda 1984 Berlin 1995 Bautzen

Quotes about Jan Buck

"There is nothing idyllic about his pictures of the Lusatian landscape, one always suspects the damage to nature caused by people and their excavators."

- Christian Schramm

“Jan Buck is not a Bautzen painter, not a local artist. In spite of this, or precisely because of this, he is entitled to the honorary citizen. "

- Maria Mirtschin on the award of honorary citizenship to the city of Bautzen

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Sources and Notes

  1. ^ Joint project between the City Museum Bautzen and the Sorbian Museum Bautzen. City Museum Bautzen, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Maria Mirtschin in his laudation on the award of honorary citizenship, Official Gazette of the City of Bautzen, vol. 17 / no. 14/11. August 2007
personal data
SURNAME Buck, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buk, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Nebelschütz
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2019
Place of death Crostwitz / Chrósćicy