Max Buri

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Max Buri in his studio (before 1908)
Max Buri: Young woman with red hair

Max Buri (born July 24, 1868 in Burgdorf , † May 21, 1915 in Interlaken ) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

Max Buri was the son of the wealthy businessman Franz Alfred Buri and received private drawing lessons from Paul Volmar in Bern while he was still at high school . His youth was overshadowed by the early death of his father and sister. In 1885 the mother moved to Basel with her five sons . After leaving school, he attended Fritz Schider's class at the Basel industrial school . In 1886 he attended the preliminary course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was dismissed a short time later by Professor Karl Raupp due to laziness and lack of talent. He attended Simon Hollósy's private school from 1887 to 1889 .

He then traveled to Paris in 1889 and became a student of Jules Lefébvre and Adolphe William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian . After traveling abroad through England, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Magreb , he returned to Munich and opened a studio . In the Bavarian capital he was a student of the Swiss painter Albert von Keller until 1895 . After his marriage to Frida Schenk in 1898, he lived in Switzerland; in Langnau im Emmental , from 1899 in Lucerne and from 1903 in Brienz . He and his wife had a daughter, Hedwig, who was born in 1899. For a long time Max Buri could not break away from the influences of the Munich school . It was not until 1900 that he developed his own style under the influence of Ferdinand Hodler . In 1905 he received the small gold medal at the IX. international art exhibition in Munich for After the Funeral .

In 1909 Buri was the initiator of the “First International Art Exhibition in Switzerland”, which took place in the Kursaal Interlaken. A year later, Buri was also one of the organizers of the second Interlaken exhibition, in which Swiss and German artists were shown alongside images from French (post) impressionism. In 1911 Buri was awarded the State Prize (“First Class Medal”) for the double portrait of the old at the “International Exhibition” in Rome . At the “XI. National Art Exhibition “in Neuchâtel in 1912, he had his own hall with 22 works; he sold for 28,500 francs. In the same year there was an arson attack on works by him and Cuno Amiet at the Kunsthaus Zürich . The case was never resolved. In 1913 Buri was a member of the jury of the Swiss Department of the XI. International art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . In the same year he was included in the jury for the “XII. National Art Exhibition ”, which took place on the grounds of the Swiss National Exhibition in 1914 in Bern.

On May 21, 1915, Buri fell from the landing stage into the Aare in Interlaken ; he died of heart failure just before midnight at the Hotel du Lac. In the late summer of the same year, the Kunsthaus Zürich organized a commemorative exhibition with over 160 works. Ten pictures were sold, including The Brienzer Farmer with a Basket for the then unbelievable price of 15,000 francs.

Buri's pictures have been shown at exhibitions in Paris, Lausanne, Düsseldorf, Munich, Cologne, Vienna, Bremen, Zurich, Interlaken, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Stuttgart.

Buri also worked as a teacher. One of his better-known students was the painter and graphic artist Klara Borter .

Awards

  • 1900: Award at the Paris World Exhibition (painting Madonna , destroyed 1902)
  • 1905: Small gold medal at the IX. international exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace (painting After a funeral in Brienz )
  • 1911: State Prize at the international exhibition in Rome (painting The Old Ones )
  • 1913: Large gold medal at the XI. international exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace (painting Die Alten )

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Buri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Gertrud Zimmerli, et al .: From Anker to Zünd - Art in the Young Federal State 1848–1900 . Ed .: Christian Klemm. Scheidegger & Spiess / Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-906574-00-8 , p. 395 .
  2. ↑ October 1896, entry in the register book for Max Buri. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Buri, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buri, Max Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1915
Place of death Interlaken