Karl Siegfried Büchner

Karl Siegfried Büchner 2005 in his studio in Diessen

Karl Siegfried Büchner (born March 2, 1936 in Lindau (Lake Constance) , † June 7, 2009 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and etcher .

Life

Büchner was born in 1936 as the first of four children. He grew up in a simple family and initially completed a commercial training after school.

His interest in art was aroused in the early 1950s. In 1952 Büchner received his first impulses from the painter Joseph Löflath . He also took painting lessons from the Berlin painters Egon Mantow and André Ficus , and later from the Lake Constance painters Hubert Berchtold , Sepp Mahler and Horst Kalbhenn .

From 1954 to 1975 he pursued his second passion in addition to painting: jazz music. As a drummer he played in big bands and in small formations and performed with internationally known musicians in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic. In painting he was interested in v. a. Nature studies. He also painted portraits of musicians. In 1964 Büchner went to Munich. In the same year he had his first solo exhibition in the Städtische Galerie in the old town hall in Lindau. In 1975 he finally gave up his musical career in order to devote himself entirely to painting.

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In Munich a. a. until 1978 the COMIX complex, political and socially critical images and drawings that work with the methods of comics . In place of speech and thought bubbles, from 1973 typefaces with a pronounced handwritten character were used as inscriptions that linguistically provide information about the idea and intention (e.g. "Check your reflexes").

In 1993 Büchner went to Bierdorf am Ammersee with his family . Large-format works were created in the new studio. A trip to the USA in 1996 triggered the important group of works "American Landscapes". He also developed the picture series Stripes , small-format pictures that are hung on top of each other like film strips in vertical ribbons. In 1998 he moved into an even larger studio in Dießen am Ammersee and worked on the groups of works Radical emotions , the body fragments Franktalen and Blind Dates . After a trip to Africa, the first South Africa pictures and expressive portraits were created. He began working on the Kaff group of works , a series of mostly small-format Bierdorf pictures.

In 2003 Büchner began to deal intensively with the possibilities of etching. The first prints were made in Joschi Josephski's etching workshop in Issing. In 2005 he returned to Lindau. After a serious illness, he died on June 7, 2009 in Lindau.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1964 Municipal gallery in the old town hall, Lindau: drawings
• 1966 Galerie Grohmann, Munich: Oil paintings and works on paper
• 1968 Gallery in the Deutschordenshof, Heilbronn: New oil paintings
• 1971 Municipal gallery in the old town hall, Lindau: pictures and drawings
• 1976 Jean Camion Gallery, Paris: Oil paintings and works on paper
• 1978 Authors' Gallery, Munich: COMIX, drawings (catalog)
• 1982 Authors' Gallery, Munich: New oil paintings and drawings
• 1986 Holbein Gallery, Lindau: New works
• 1988 Galerie Am Haagtor, Tübingen: Oil paintings and works on paper (catalog)
• 1992 Kulturesk Gallery, Augsburg: THE GOLDEN OLDIES, 100 overpainted reproductions
• 1994 Gallery of the University of Innsbruck: painting on wrapping paper
• 1995 Banz Monastery: KUNST FAILURE, action
• 1996 Gallery of the University of Innsbruck: large format pictures
• 1997 Friedberg archive gallery with painting action
• 1998 Archive Gallery Friedberg: Pictures of the American West (catalog)
• 2000 Gallery on the main square, Fürstenfeldbruck: POWERFUL PAINTING GENERATES ENERGY
• 2003 City Museum Weilheim: HOT SPRINGS
• 2008 Galerie Josephski-Neukum, Issing: Oil paintings, drawings and etchings
• 2010 Lindau City Museum: MARLBORO LIGHTS and WYOMING
• 2012 Stadtmuseum Landsberg am Lech: From the Rocky Mountains to Bierdorf (catalog)
• 2014 Big Pond Artworks Gallery, Munich: Karl Siegfried Büchner (1936–2009), Landscapes

Literature (selection)

• Rudolf Greiner: From the dance of the body . In: Karl Siegfried Büchner. Galerie am Haagtor Tübingen, exhibition catalog Tübingen 1988, pp. 8–9.
• Karl Siegfried Büchner, American Landscapes, Friedberg-Bachern 1998.
• Gudrun Szczepanek: The self-portrait as a painterly challenge . In: Karl Siegfried Büchner, self-portraits, Herzogenrath 2010, pp. 5–15.
• Sonia Fischer (Ed.): Karl Siefgried Büchner: From the Rocky Mountains to Bierdorf. Exhibition catalog, Neues Stadtmuseum, Landsberg am Lech 2012. (= Art History from Landsberg am Lech. ISSN  0931-2722 , No. 55).