Walter Buhe

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Walter Buhe (born May 26, 1882 in Aschersleben , † December 22, 1958 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Buhe studied at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , where he was a student of Emil Orlik . Buhe's work in the field of commercial graphics was varied, benefiting from an apprenticeship as a lithographer and studying with Emil Orlik in Berlin. Among other things, he designed posters, brochures, book covers, emergency money, postage stamps, calendars, created illustrations and even developed his own font, the Buhe Fraktur. The high level of ability and the multifaceted nature of his work led to his appointment as professor for applied graphics at the Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig. He held this professorship from 1920 to 1947.

In 1921 he was appointed by Erich Gruner , the artistic advisory board of the Leipzig Trade Fair Office , together with Georg Baus and Walter Zeising to be one of the first exhibition graphic artists at the Leipzig Trade Fair .

While Buhe was active in “commercial graphic” and “illustrative” in the early years, later his work shifted to the “painterly” and “free graphic”, as he himself wrote. The starting point was perhaps the many study trips that took him and his students mainly to Eastern European countries. Between 1923 and 1926, he traveled to various countries with Erich Ohser . His favorite subject in the presentation was the "folk culture". In some cases intensely colored watercolors of village and city views, of landscapes and repeated portrait studies, depictions of ordinary people at work and their leisure activities were created. One example of this is his work “The People of Rosendorf”. It contains 30 woodcuts with handwritten descriptions of the inhabitants shown. Buhe received a gold medal for this at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 and became an honorary citizen of Rosendorf in Bohemia .

He drew with pen and pen, used the technique of lithography , woodcut , etching, as well as watercolor and oil painting. This skillful diversity as well as the varied content of his works made the artist Walter Buhe known far beyond his hometown Aschersleben . But he felt connected to her all his life, as one of his last works was a mural in the former Optima crèche. He dedicated entire picture portfolios to his hometown. The city honored him for this in 1957 with honorary citizenship .

Walter Buhe was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund , the Deutscher Werkbund and the Verein Deutscher Buchgewerbekünstler Leipzig.

The engineer and composer Klaus Buhé (1912–1996) and the guitarist Thomas Buhé (1920–2015) were his sons.

Documents

Originals of the illustrations for the children's song book “Klingendes Kinderland” are in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig .

Honors

Works

  • The people of Rosendorf. Sudeten German peasant heads. Cut in wood by Walter Buhe. Pictures of life in manuscripts. Border and foreign countries, Berlin 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Ohser - His Life - A Chronicle. Top stories part 12 on spitzenstadt.de, accessed on November 28, 2016
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on July 23, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Short biography of the antiquarian bookshop Lothar Czambor, Erfurt

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personal data
SURNAME Boo, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1958
Place of death Leipzig