Max Buri
Max Buri ( born July 24, 1868 in Burgdorf, † May 21 1915 in Interlaken ) was a Swiss painter.
Life and work
Max Buri was already during his school days drawing lessons with Paul Volmar in Bern. After school, he attended the class of Fritz Schider in the trade school of Basel. Later he went to Munich, which was released in 1886 at the Art Academy of Professor Karl Raupp because of laziness and lack of talent. So he attended from 1887 to 1889, the private school of Simon Holosy.
He then traveled to Paris and became a student at the Académie Julian. After numerous trips abroad, he returned to Munich and opened a studio. From 1898 he lived in Switzerland, in Langnau im Emmental, Lucerne and last in Brienz. For a long time Max Buri could not solve from the influences of the Munich school itself. It was not until 1900 he developed under the influence of Ferdinand Hodler own style.
Buri was 1909, the initiator of the "First International Art Exhibition of Switzerland ", which took place in Kursaal Interlaken. A year later, at the second exhibition Interlaken, in addition to Swiss and German artists images of the French (Post) Impressionism were shown Buri was co-organizer. 1911 Buri was the State Award for the image awarded at the "International Exhibition" in Rome The ancients. In the " XI. National Art Exhibition " in Neuchâtel in 1912 he had his own room with 22 stations; he sold for 28,500 francs. In the same year an arson attack on works by him and Cuno Amiet was held at the Kunsthaus Zurich. The case was never solved.
1913 Buri was a jury member of the Swiss Department of the " XI. International Art Exhibition " at the Munich Glass Palace. He was honored once again for the picture The old man with the big gold medal ( "Medal, First Class "). In the same year he was in the jury for the " XII. " Elected National Art Exhibition, which was held on the grounds of the National Exhibition in Bern in 1914.
On May 21, 1915 Buri fell in Interlaken from the jetty into the Aare; He died shortly before midnight at the Hotel du Lac of heart failure. The Kunsthaus Zurich held in the late summer of the same year a memorial exhibition of over 160 works. Ten pictures were sold, among other things, the Brienz farmer with basket for the then incredible price of CHF 15'000.
Buri's paintings were shown in exhibitions in Paris, Lausanne, Dusseldorf, Munich, Cologne, Vienna, Bremen, Zurich, Interlaken, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, Baden -Baden, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Neuchâtel, Geneva, Stuttgart.
Buri was also active as a teacher. One of his more famous pupils was the painter and graphic artist Klara Borter.