Toni Burghart

Toni Burghart (born June 14, 1928 in Nuremberg ; † December 28, 2008 there ) was a Nuremberg artist . He worked mainly as a painter and draftsman, occasionally as an author.

Live and act

Toni Burghart did an apprenticeship as a lithographer until 1946 and continued his training as a graphic artist at the technical college for design until 1950 . He then studied in 1951/1952 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , or its then seat in Ellingen . From 1952 he was a freelance painter and graphic artist in Nuremberg.

Burghart's pictorial language repeatedly took up motifs from his hometown. Again and again he ironized Albrecht Dürer's motifs . In the obituary by the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg Ulrich Maly it was said: “Toni Burghart took part in the design of our city critically, admonishingly and ironically in his own artistic way like no other. His humorous and subtle visual and language joke always hit, but never hurt. "

Burghart had solo exhibitions in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Barcelona, ​​London and was awarded the Nuremberg City Prize in 1998. In 2007, Burghart illuminated the Nuremberg Imperial Castle as part of the “ Blue Night ” .

He was a member of the artist group Der Kreis .

Awards

• 1965 sponsorship award from the city of Nuremberg
• 1969 1st prize at the international graphic exhibition in Ljubljana
• 1971 Faber-Castell travel grant
• 1993 1st Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten
• 1998 Culture Prize of the City of Nuremberg
• 1999 Scholarship from the Luber family, Goldener Löwe - Kallmünz (1 month free board and lodging, one warm meal and one liter of beer per day)
• 2008 Citizen Medal of the City of Nuremberg

Works (selection)

• Evangelical Lutheran Church Administration Nuremberg (Hrsg.): The Evangelical Nuremberg. 50 years of ev.-luth. General Church Administration Nuremberg. April 25, 1914 - April 25, 1964. Text compilation by Church Councilor Heinrich Schick, selection of pictures by Church Building Office, graphic design by Toni Burghart, Nuremberg. Neustadt an der Aisch: Publishing house Ph. CW Schmidt, no year

• Georg Mörsberger: You don't say anything, you just talk. 40 glosses from 17 volumes of the “ Nürnberger Nachrichten ” . Graphics: Toni Burghart. Nuremberg: Verlag Nürnberger Presse. 1964, 100 pp.

• Hans Bertram Bock (editor): Albrecht Dürer Almanach . Color, mostly full-page illustrations by Toni Burghart. Nuremberg: Verlag Nürnberger Presse, 1971, 144 pp. (Albrecht Dürer Almanach for the 500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer . Contributions: Hermann Kesten : The Faces of a City ; Ludwig Baer: The Nuremberg and “The Four Apostles” ; Joachim Kaiser : Art Admiration and self-criticism ; Anton Dieterich : Dürer on the Iberian Peninsula ; Hermann Glaser : Albrecht Dürer as a Germanic desire ; Hendrik Bebber: On the threshold of the Renaissance ; Toni Burghart: Willibald and Albrecht silly ; Max von der Grün : impressions of an outsider )

• This is the Dinx! This is the Dinx! You know, at Cairo linx . Nuremberg: Kyrenia-Press, 1980, 80 pages, ISBN 3-88517-020-5 ; 2nd edition, Nuremberg: Südhanse, 1981, ISBN 3-88691-000-8

• Individual sketchbooks . Nuremberg: Albrecht Dürer Society, 1983, 14 pp.

• Chaffinch. 28 poems and 25 original linocuts . Hersbruck: Original Hersbrucker Bücherwerkstätte, 1983, [36] p. 25 Ill.

• Lajos Keresztes , Peter Kampehl, Toni Burghart: light, signs, language . Illustrated book. Nuremberg: Book u. Zeitschriften Vertriebs GmbH 1985, 204 pages, ISBN 3923917015

• Klaus Schamberger : Garbage cans & Co. - Lots of Nuremberg poems . With illustrations by Toni Burghart. Munich: Hugendubel, 1992, 112 pages, ISBN 3-88034-638-0

• Workshop book . Texts, portraits and illustrations by Toni Burghart .... - Hersbruck: Orig. Hersbrucker Bücherwerkstätte, 1999, 35 pp.

• Fritz Aschka and Toni Burghart (eds.): Nuremberg. The new millennium begins . Foreword: Lord Mayor Ludwig Scholz , text: Fritz Aschka, drawings and texts: Toni Burghart, photographs: Lajos Keresztes. Nuremberg: Verlag Nürnberger Presse, 2000, 343 pages, ISBN 3-931683-05-2

• Toni Burghart . Illustrated book, approx. 70 multi-colored illustrations, Toni Burghart pictures. Text Birgit Suk. Photo: Willy Weihreter. Cadolzburg: Ars Vivendi Verlag, 2003, 96 pages, ISBN 3-89716-503-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Nuremberg: Obituary for Toni Burghart ( memento of the original from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Culture Department Nuremberg: The Blue Night 2007

Web links

• Toni Burghart, biography (with photo)
• City of Nuremberg: Mourning Toni Burghart , December 29, 2008
• Medienwerkstatt Franken: ICH HASE DICH - The painter and poet Toni Burghart (video, running time: 10:49 minutes)