Background
Carl Buchheister was born on October 17, 1890, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Carl Buchheister was born on October 17, 1890, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Carl Buchheister studied in Berlin and Bremen at schools of arts and crafts. Furthermore, he completed a commercial education.
After completing a commercial education, Carl Buchheister had a voluntary service at a bank in Hanover. To fulfil his military service, he volunteered for one year at a field-artillery regiment in Lorraine. At the beginning of World War I, he was drafted to serve for his country. When he had free time, Carl Buchheister was engaged in drawing. During that time and more than 100 pencil-sketches came into existence.
After the war, he settled as an independent artist in Hanover, where he soon became friends with Kurt Schwitters. From 1923 onwards the first abstract pictures came into existence, a selection of which was shown in 1926 at the Sturm Gallery owned by Herwarth Walden. In 1927 Buchheister was the founder of an artists' union called "Die Abstrakten Hannover" together with artists living in Hanover like Schwitters and Vordemberge-Gildewart.
In 1933 Buchheister had to abdicate all honorary posts as chairman of artists' groups due to the Nazi-regime. Because of his abstract painting, he was classified "degenerate" and in 1937 some of his works in museums were confiscated and destroyed.
Carl Buchheister was drafted as a captain of the reserve to World War II. After his return from American war captivity in 1945, the artist worked at first withdrawn at his studio. Buchheister’s artist style changed radically after the Second World War. Before the advent of National Socialism in Germany he made linear abstract works. After a long interruption in his career he returned to art after the war.
In 1949 he met the painter Karl Otto Götz, with whom he formed an amicable contact. Works with two layers, paintings which overlap the frame and go beyond it. He met with Edouard Jäger on the occasion of a one man show at the Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt, who introduced him to France. In 1958 Buchheister decided to settle there and spent until 1963 nearly half of time in Emeville and Paris. In his later years he worked in a much freer style, principally on paper, incorporating more varied materials and textures.
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1955Composition Juviem
1959Komposition mit roter Trennlinie
1953Untitled No. 70
1960Unvollendet IV
1958Dreiformvariation
1928Composition Gowa
1928Composition Ursiem
1959Komposition rotes Dreieck
1934Komposition Mulem
1959Komposition Eli
1958Composition Har
1957Composition with a Blue Square
1926Bild mit schwarzem Keil
1931Composition Tight Curves. 25
1925Komposition Verwa
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1932Komposition Chartem
1958Composition Kolvil
1960Composition
1961Composition Kewo
1961Carl Buchheister was a member of Abstraction création.