Wilhelm Buddenberg (painter)

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Wilhelm Hermann Friedrich Buddenberg (born July 16, 1890 in Trier , † February 2, 1967 in Neuss ) was a German painter who is particularly known as an animal and hunting painter .

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Wilhelm Buddenberg attended elementary school and then the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , where he passed the Abitur in 1911 . He then studied four semesters Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin . But since he was more interested in painting, he switched to the Berlin-Charlottenburg Art Academy and studied with Friedrich Kallmorgen and Paul Prozess . In the first year of his studies he received an academy award with a study trip to Norway, in particular to observe moose . He finished his studies after six semesters with distinction.

From 1914 he served in the military, initially with the 7th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 69 in Trier. As a sergeant he went to World War I and was promoted to officer. He received the Iron Cross II and I Class and the Wound Badge . After the First World War he went on study trips to several European countries and to Germany. He married and lived with his wife in Trier. From there he went hunting, especially in the Eifel and Hunsrück, and captured his experiences in pictures. Since it was founded in 1930, he was a member of the “Association of Fine Artists and Art Friends in the Trier District”.

After the Second World War he settled in Neuss . In the Rhine valley he conducted landscape studies, observed animals and painted mainly rabbits , pheasants and ducks . In 1954 he took part in the hunting exhibition in Düsseldorf, his last participation in an exhibition.

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Wilhelm Buddenberg made book illustrations for several books by Ferdinand von Raesfeld , which were published in several editions by Parey , including for

  • Ferdinand von Raesfeld, Walter Frevert (Ed.): The German Waidwerk. Instructional and manual for hunting. With illustrations and panels based on drawings and paintings by Karl Wagner and Wilhelm Buddenberg.
  • Ferdinand von Raesfeld: The roe deer. Natural history, protection and hunting. With illustrations and drawings by Wilhelm Buddenberg and Reinhold Feussner.
  • Ferdinand von Raesfeld, Friedrich Vorreyer: The red deer. Natural history, protection and hunting. With illustrations and plates based on paintings and drawings by Wilhelm Buddenberg, Detlef Hartmann and Gerhard Löbenberg .
  • Ferdinand von Raesfeld: The Hege in the wild. A teaching and manual for hunters and hunting owners. With illustrations based on drawings by Wilhelm Buddenberg and Karl Wagner and panels based on watercolors by Wilhelm Buddenberg.

He also worked for the magazines Wild und Hund and Deutsche Jägerzeitung .

Several of his pictures are in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, Netherlands, in the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich and in the Wine Museum in Trier.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Buddeberg on galerie-heinz-janssen.de
  2. ↑ The history of the association on the website of the Society for Fine Arts Trier, accessed on January 16, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Buddenberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buddenberg, Wilhelm Hermann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1967
Place of death Neuss