Franz Bunke

Franz Bunke ( born December 3, 1857 in Schwaan; † July 6, 1939 in Weimar; Complete name: Franz Wilhelm Johann Bunke ) was a German painter.

Life

The son of a mill builder received since 1871 when Paul Rostock painter Tischbein ( 1820-1874 ) drawing lessons and studied after his death in 1874 under Theodor Rocke. At this time he also attended a trade school.

In 1878 he began studying art at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, but moved in the same year at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts Weimar. He was 1882-1884 master pupil of the landscape painter Theodor Hagen and received in 1886 a teacher of landscape painting. 1910 awarded him the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe -Weimar -Eisenach the title of professor.

Artists' colony Schwaan

Bunke stayed from 1892 in summer regularly in Schwaan on and founded an artists' colony. Every year in the summer, he moved with some pupils of the Academy in his hometown. Temporary painted there also Peter Paul Draewing, Alfred Heinsohn, Rudolf Bechstein, Rudolf Bartels, Erich Venzmer, Wilhelm Facklam and Paul Müller- Kaempff.

Awards

• On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Academic College of Fine Arts Berlin, he was in 1896 awarded the Gold Medal.
• In 1911 he received the Grand Medal for Art and Science of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Schwerin for his work.
• In 1927 he was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Schwaan who named a street after him.

Works

Among his most famous landscape motifs include drawings and oil paintings of his hometown Schwaan, meadows and ponds on the Warnow river and the adjacent villages.

He exhibited his works 1903-1914 at the Munich Glass Palace in 1914 and made ​​into a painting exhibition in Vienna. In 1930 his works were shown in a solo exhibition in his hometown Schwaan.