Lutz Backes

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Lutz Backes (2008)

Lutz Backes (also Bubec ; born July 16, 1938 in Mannheim ) is a German caricaturist , quick draftsman , writer and sculptor . He lives in Nuremberg .

Life

Born as the son of the bank director and academic painter Ernst M. Backes , Lutz Backes learned the profession of industrial clerk and also studied speech technology and dramaturgy at the Nuremberg Conservatory . He tried his hand at various professions as an editor, bank clerk and auctioneer and was active as an actor, author and director in Nuremberg from 1961 (Neues Theater, Die Hintertreppe). His sequence of scenes until the last drop of anger sparked a theater scandal in 1965 because of the nude appearance of an actress . The result: 132 performances in Nuremberg, Munich and Stuttgart . Backes was already active as a cartoonist at the time. His drawings have been published in various publications in Germany and through a US agency worldwide under the stage name Bubec . From 1977 the Handelsblatt , Düsseldorf, hired him exclusively as a portrait caricaturist. His column Bubecs Zerr-spektiven became a trademark of the Wirtschaftsblatt for over 25 years. In the 1960s he also became the "house cartoonist" of the Munich laughing and shooting society .

In 1967, through the mediation of his school friend Gerd Dassler (son of the entrepreneur Rudolf Dassler ) , Backes designed the Puma AG logo , today one of the most famous brand logos in the world. In 1981 Commerzbank exhibited its Handelsblatt caricatures, which was so successful that the collection was shown as a traveling exhibition at 246 locations for 15 years. Bubec was also able to defend his world record ( Guinness Book of Records ) in high-speed drawing for years . As a show artist, he has appeared in twelve countries and in numerous German, Italian, Turkish and Bulgarian television programs. Over the years Bubec has published a dozen volumes of caricatures. Several times he was awarded the Golden Palms at the humor festival ("Salone dell 'Umorismo") in Sanremo . At times he worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Graz for Innovation and Creativity.

Since the 1990s Backes worked as a cabaret artist again. With the chansonnette Barbara Sewien, he performed several literary and musical cabaret programs. As an author, he has published three books and several tabloid comedies, the first of which, Nasch mich, Ich bin der Honig , ran in Mannheim for three years and was then performed in Switzerland , Italy , the Netherlands and Belgium . From 2002 to 2008 Backes was also a member of the editor-in-chief of EUROjournal pro management . Since 2008 he has mainly been making busts and sculptures, which he has cast in bronze.

As a sculptor, Lutz Backes follows the tradition of the French Jean-Pierre Dantan and Honoré Daumier . These sculptors, graphic artists and caricaturists created significant revolutionary political and socially critical caricatures. With "creative talent and time-critical humor" (according to museum director Joe F. Bodenstein from the Museum of European Art in Nörvenich Castle ) Backes is now modeling caricatured bronze sculptures. Backes learned this art from the Italian caricaturist and sculptor Giorgio Gabellini .

Bronze sculptures in museums and in public spaces

Solo exhibitions

Plays

  • Until the last drop of anger. 1965
  • Ene-Mene-Mink-Mank. 1966
  • Eat me, I'm the honey. 1996
  • Perlicke, Perlacke. 2000
  • Tomorrow everything will be different. 2005
  • The wrong bill. 2007
  • Circus in the bank. 2010
  • The murders of Giuseppe Verdi. 2018

Cabaret programs

  • Man don't change. 1988
  • Prayer of a virgin to 4 hands with encroachments. 1996
  • The world will not end because of this. 1999
  • Make kää bosses. 1999
  • A wrong fifty. 2003
  • Palatinate blood is kää bud milk. 2005
  • Pinke-Pinke - The hunt for change. 2006
  • When love screams at night 2016

Fonts

  • WEATHER FROGNOSES . Comments on the general weather situation by Prof. Frosch in rhyming Electoral Palatinate and with many caricatures by BUBEC
  • Eyes on the mouth. VLE, Erlangen 1968.
  • Headhunting. Edelmann, Nuremberg 1969.
  • The splendor on the Rhine. Lutz Backes and Jürgen Scheller. VLE, Erlangen 1973.
  • Showt-her it's us . a cheerful star parade by Rudi Büttner and Lutz Backes. Upper Franconian Publishing House, 1974.
  • Personiflage. Lucifer Edition, Döhlau 1981.
  • Bonn quote treasure. Umschau, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-524-88008-8 .
  • Poem from Bonn. Illustrations for the book by Volker Kühn. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-15617-2 .
  • Laughs, holes, stage fright. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-12564-1 .
  • Heads with heads. 50 years of the Frankfurt Book Fair and its authors as seen by cartoonist Bubec. Foreword by Christiane Herzog . Schimper-Verlag, Schwetzingen 1998, ISBN 3-87742-132-6 .
  • Koppodunum. KF Schimper Verlag, Schwetzingen 1998, ISBN 3-87742-124-5 .
  • Kurpfälzer heads. KF Schimper Verlag, Schwetzingen 1999, ISBN 3-87742-143-1 .
  • The murders of Giuseppe Verdi. Zollhaus, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-923328-16-8 .
  • Beelitzer heads ... and droplets. Antonia Edition, Nuremberg 2014.
  • JF Bodenstein: Lutz Backes - the sculptural work. Antonia Edition, Nuremberg 2015.
  • Lutz Backes - busts and statuettes. edited by Raymund Heller. Antonia Edition, Nuremberg 2017.
  • Halos and sanctuaries. Cartoons. Antonia Edition, Nuremberg 2019.

Awards

  • 1973: Bordighera City Prize
  • 1974: Il Mangia Prize, Siena
  • 1975: Prize of the Italian Minister of Culture
  • 1977: 6th prize at the world exhibition in Montreal / Canada
  • 1977: Prize from the Turkish Press Office
  • 1979: Winner of the World Exhibition in Montreal / Canada
  • 1981: Silver Date, Salone dell'Umorismo, Sanremo
  • 1989: Venice Prize
  • 1990: Golden Date, Salone dell'Umorismo, Sanremo
  • 1991: Golden Palm, Salone dell'Umorismo, Sanremo (for life's work)
  • 1999: Goldene Palme, Salone dell'Umorismo, Sanremo (in the Letteratura illustrata section for the book Heads with Heads )
  • 2007: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Schwetzingen
  • 2012: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Beelitz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ genios.de
  2. ↑ Collection directory 2017 , accessed on March 10, 2018.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Backes, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bubec (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist, draftsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim