Wilhelm M. Busch
Wilhelm Martin Busch (born September 1, 1908 in Breslau ; † July 7, 1987 in Hamburg ) was a German illustrator .
biography
Wilhelm M. Busch was the son of the painter Arnold Busch , who taught at the Breslau Art Academy . After graduating from high school, he did a three-year apprenticeship as a decorative painter .
From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the Berlin Academy for Free and Applied Art and became a press illustrator and freelance artist. During the Second World War he was drafted as a PK draftsman .
In 1954 he moved to Hamburg and became a teacher at the textile and fashion school (later the technical college for design). In 1984 he was appointed professor by the Hamburg Senate .
In 1968 the circus aficionado received the Saltarino Prize and in 1976 he was honored with the Edwin Scharff Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Wilhelm M. Busch was best known as an illustrator of over 300 books. He had been married to Brigitte Borchert - the actress from Menschen am Sonntag - since 1936 ; the marriage had three children.
Books by Wilhelm M. Busch
- Sketchbook St. Pauli
- Circus: From an abandoned sketchbook
- Erotic scenes from world literature
Books illustrated by Wilhelm M. Busch
- Harper Lee Who disturbs the nightingale
- Giacomo Casanova memoir. Story of my life
- Kurt Tucholsky Gripsholm Castle
- Georg Hermann Kubinke
- Eric Malpass At seven in the morning the world is still all right
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venetian Epigrams
- Wilhelm Hauff fairy tales and short stories
- Jim Dodge wind in the fences
- Horst Wolfram Geißler Dear Augustin
- Eugen Roth man and monster, cheerful verses
- Wilhelm Speyer The fight of the tertia
- Julius Stinde The Buchholz family
- Wilhelm Raabe The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse
- Carl Franz: The post robbery in the Subach committed by eight road robbers, five of whom were brought from life to death on October 7th, 1824 in Giessen through the Schwerdt. Files extracted and processed by Carl Franz, Criminal Court Secretary of Giessen. Giessen 1825 . With illustrations by Wilhelm M. Busch. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1986, ISBN 3-922561-49-7 .
- Laughing Life: Fibel f. Berlin children / [drawing d. Pictures: Wilhelm [M.] Busch]. 2nd Edition. Berlin: Oehmigke - Berlin: Union. [1939]. 104 p. 1 cover page; size 8.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm M. Busch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wilhelm. M. Busch Archive eV Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Busch, Wilhelm M., p. 65 f .
- ↑ Franklin Kopitzsch: Hamburgische Biographie-Personenlexikon. Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 9783767213661 , p. 83. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ See the entry on Brigitte Borchert ( Memento of the original from April 18, 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. at filmportal.de
- ↑ Laughing Life: Fibel f. Berlin children . 2nd edition Oehmigke Union, Berlin Berlin 1939 ( dnb.de [accessed November 15, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busch, Wilhelm M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Busch, Wilhelm Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1987 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |