Walter Bud

Leo Rauth : Portrait of Walter Bud, playing the violin, around 1912

Walter Bud (born August 1, 1890 in Leipzig ; † May 11, 1915 in the Battle of Ypres ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

The son of the Jewish businessman Adolf Bud attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig from Easter 1901 to 1910 . After passing his matriculation examination , he initially devoted himself to studying architecture .

However, following his inclination and talent, he soon switched to the Dresden Art Academy to train in portrait and life drawing .

From April 1913 he was a student of Hermann Groeber and Peter Halm at the Munich Art Academy .

Walter Bud's artistic work consists mainly of etchings , a number of which Hermann Voss was able to acquire for the graphic collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

The First World War ended Walter Bud's further artistic development. As a sergeant in an infantry regiment of the 6th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division, he was shot in the head in the Second Battle of Flanders near Ypres . His grave is on the war cemetery of the commune of Saint-Laurent-Blangy in the Pas-de-Calais department .

In a limited edition of 20 pieces, the Leipzig art dealer PH Beyer & Sohn published a portfolio with 12 original etchings by Walter Bud in 1922, printed on Japanese paper . Karl Ettlinger wrote the foreword . A copy is now in the Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .

literature

Bud, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 343 .
Volker Frank: Bud, Walter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 11.
Christian Lenz et al. (Arrangement): German artists from Marées to Slevogt. Hirmer, Munich 2003 (= Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich: Painting Catalogs, Volume 8), ISBN 3-7774-9780-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Lehmann: Annual report of the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig about the school year from Easter 1915 to Easter 1916. Engelmann, Leipzig 1916, p. 15.
↑ Kathrin Iselt: “Sonderbeauftragter des Führers”: The art historian and museum man Hermann Voss (1884–1969) , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-41220572-0 (= studies on art , volume 20, also dissertation at TU Dresden , 2009)., p. 43.

personal data
SURNAME	Bud, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1915
Place of death	Ypres

[1] Ernst Lehmann: Annual report of the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig about the school year from Easter 1915 to Easter 1916. Engelmann, Leipzig 1916, p. 15.

[2] Kathrin Iselt: “Sonderbeauftragter des Führers”: The art historian and museum man Hermann Voss (1884–1969) , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-41220572-0 (= studies on art , volume 20, also dissertation at TU Dresden , 2009)., p. 43.