CARL BUCHHEISTER* (Hanover 1890 - 1964 Hanover)

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  CARL BUCHHEISTER*
  (Hanover 1890 - 1964 Hanover)
  Composition, 1959
  mixed media/canvas, 105 x 139 cm
  verso inscribed Carl Buchheister composition Stra 1959
  provenance: Daniel Cordier Paris/Frankfurt am Main; Gal. Fred Jahn Munich 2008; International private collection
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 10.000 - 15.000
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 10.000
  
  Carl/Karl Buchheister was a German painter, graphic artist, relief sculptor and university teacher. In 1913 he attended the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. After World War I, Buchheister lived as a freelance painter in Hanover. Under the influence of Wassily Kandinsky and Kurt Schwitters, he became one of the protagonists of the German avant-garde. Since 1925 Buchheister created constructivist paintings and sculptural objects. With Kurt Schwitters, Rudolf Jahns, Hans Nitzschke and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, he founded the artists' group "die abstrakten hannover" in 1927. In 1929 he had his first solo exhibition in Herwarth Walden's gallery "Der Sturm" in Berlin ("Abstract Paintings"). From 1933 to 1936 he was a member of the Parisian artists' group "Abstraction-Création". Under the Nazis, Buchheister was considered "degenerate." In 1937, six of his works were confiscated from the Provinzial-Museum Hannover and the Nassauisches Landesmuseum Wiesbaden in the Nazi action "Degenerate Art". From 1934 Buchheister again painted representational: landscapes in and around Hildesheim as well as portraits. 1943 Participation with three paintings at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. After the end of the war Buchheister began to turn again to abstract painting; friendship with Karl Otto Goetz. In 1959 Buchheister participated in the documenta II. The friendship with Jaguer brought the acquaintance with other Parisian painters such as Pierre Alechinsky, Arnalt Bryen, Francis Bott, Herold and Jenkins. In addition, there were exhibitions in Japan, South America, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, England, France, Italy and Israel.
  
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