Michael Buthe

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Michael Buthe (born August 1, 1944 in Sonthofen ; † November 15, 1994 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German painter , sculptor , collageur and writer .

life and work

Buthe attended the municipal secondary school in Höxter from 1956 to 1963 , where he stood out for his talent for drawing. From 1964 to 1965 he studied at the Werkkunstschule Kassel in the class “Applied Painting” and “Gestaltlehre” with Adolf Buchleiter , then until 1968 at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel with Arnold Bode . During his time in Kassel he lived in the occupied Münstermannhaus on Königsplatz. Jutta Schmidt , Gisela Schmidt and Gerhard Büttenbender were among his acquaintances .

In 1968 he moved into an apartment and a studio on Roonstrasse in Cologne ; Buthe changed his workshops more frequently in the following years, but Cologne always remained his chosen hometown. In 1970 Buthe made his first trip to Morocco , which led him to live and work there for several months every year. The Orient, its people and its spirituality shaped to a large extent Buthe's artistic work, he became a “traveler between the worlds” of Cologne and Marrakech .

In 1976 Michael Buthe received the Villa Romana Prize and spent a year in Florence ; On the return trip to Cologne in 1977 the fairy tale The Wonderful Journey of Saladin Ben Ismael was written . Numerous other fairy tales, parables , poems and diary texts followed. In 1979 WDR shot an artistic portrait of Buthe under the title Phantomas Phantastico ; Buthe later distanced himself from the cut version of the station. In 1981 Buthe took on his first teaching position as a visiting professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and one year later he moved into his large studio in Cologne-Ostheim . In the old power station there, a former substation of the Cologne transport company , he lived in an artist colony with the actor Udo Kier and the video artist Marcel Odenbach . Kier also participated in several of Buthe's performances and was also a frequent subject of Buthe's work. From 1983 on he was a professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , one of his master students is Klaus Girnus .

Michael Buthe gave up his house in Marrakech in 1991 and moved into a studio and an apartment on Mallorca , where he was rarely able to stay. A severe liver disease, which had its origins in jaundice in his youth, caused Buthe increasing health problems, so that in the 1990s he had to undertake numerous hospital stays, especially in Bonn . In 1994 Buthe's collection of poems stones was published on the occasion of an exhibition in the Cologne gallery Orangerie-Reinz. Michael Buthe died in the Evangelical Forest Hospital in Bad Godesberg; he was buried on November 22, 1994 in Höxter.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection):

Group exhibitions (selection):

Literary work

  • Michael Buthe: The renaissance had broken out . In: Dietmar Werle: Michael Buthe - Florentinische Bilder , Ostfildern and Cologne, 1995.
  • Michael Buthe: Homage to a prince from Sarmakand . In: Stephan von Wiese : Michael Buthe - Sculpture in Deo Fabulosa , Munich 1983.
  • Michael Buthe: Steine , Cologne 1994.

literature

  • Tilman Osterwold (Ed.): Michael Buthe - Primavera Pompeijana , Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-89322-147-6
  • Udo Kier: Footprints , Cologne and New York 1991
  • Hans-Michael Herzog (Ed.): Michael Buthe - Early Drawings, Collages, Diaries , Ostfildern-Ruit and Bielefeld 1999.

Dedications

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Buthe, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonthofen
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1994
Place of death bad Godesberg