Buatier de Kolta

Buatier de Kolta (born Joseph Buatier; born November 18, 1847 in Caluire -et -Cuire in Lyon, France, † October 7, 1903 in New Orleans) was a French magician and machine designer.

Life

Joseph Buatier should be according to the will of the Father, of the Lyon silk merchant, priest. When he was 21 years, he left the seminary and tried his hand as a painter. During this time he learned in Lyon Hungarian magician Julius Vidos de Kolta know. Both went on tour in 1870 in Switzerland and Italy, where Buatier acted as managing director. This was followed thereafter Spain, Germany, Russia and Holland. 1873 invented Buatier the vanishing bird cage without cover. After the separation of de Kolta he went to England in 1875 and guested in the famous Egyptian Hall in London. In 1882 he toured Germany with the cities of Hamburg, Munich and Dresden. In 1885 he was in Paris and was there as his latest art piece " Le Cocon ". In 1886 he entered again into the Egyptian Hall in London with the Black Cabinet. In 1891 he was in Paris the disappearance of his wife dressed as a canary in a bird cage. In the same year he went on a tour of America. 1894 and 1897 he toured in Paris, where he in 1897 as a new trick the disappearance of a 7 meter high ladder in a warehouse, which stood on the Champ de Mars in Paris, showed. In 1902 he showed his last greatest invention, one in front of the audience without cover growing cubes, which emerged at the end of his wife. 1903, during his second tour of America, he died suddenly in New Orleans.

Importance

He was one of the greatest inventors of magic tricks. To date, there are many still used illusions that go back to the ideas and inventions of Buatier, such as folding flowers, the piercing of a person with a sword and others. Some illusions are, however, still a secret which has not yet been deciphered, such as the illusion of growing cube.

Literature and sources

  • Peter Warlock: Buatier de Kolta Genius of Illusion, Pasadena, 1993
  • Jochen Zmeck: wonderland magic, Henschel Verlag, Berlin, 1965
  • Gisela and Dietmar Winkler: The Great Hoax, Henschel Verlag, Berlin, 1981
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