Sebastian Buff

Sebastian Buff (born February 1, 1829 in Wald , Canton Appenzell , Switzerland ; † May 3, 1880 in Herisau ) was a Swiss painter and draftsman who mainly made portraits and copies as well as caricatures , numerous drawings, watercolors and oil studies with genre scenes and interiors and cityscapes .

Life

Sebastian Buff was the son of a councilor and manufacturer of the same name. He began his artistic training around 1845 with Leonhard Tanner in St. Gallen before moving to Munich. There he studied from 1847 to 1852 at the art academy and with Johann Baptist Berdellé . He then worked in St. Gallen in 1853/54 and then in Upper Bavaria (1855), in Munich (until 1856) and again in St. Gallen the following year. This was followed by further stays in Basel (1864 and 1867), Amsterdam (1862) and in Paris, where he received several commissions for portraits in 1873 . In 1857 he was in Dresden and made friends with Ludwig Richter before he was in Munich for the last time in 1879.

Works

His best-known work are the portraits of the state heads , which he made for the council halls of Trogen and Herisau . A large number of other works can be found in the Kunsthalle St. Gallen , where an exhibition was held in his honor in 1983.

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  A watch wearer takes a break , 1867

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  The Swiss sculptor Heinrich Max Imhof , 1869

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  The Basel German studies specialist Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Wackernagel

literature

• Hans Vollmer : Buff, Sebastian . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 201 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Art around Lake Constance 1850–1900, painting and sculpture (K). Sing 1984.
• Peter Mieg : In: Lenzburger Neujahrs-Blätter. 55, 1984, pp. 15-24.
• Bodensee booklets. 36, No. 1, 1985, p. 28.

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Buff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thomas Fuchs: Buff, Sebastian. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Publications by and about Sebastian Buff in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library