Michael Buthe

Michael Buthe ( born August 1, 1944 in Sonthofen, † November 15, 1994 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German painter, sculptor, and writer Collageur.

Life and work

Buthe attended from 1956 to 1963 Municipal Grammar School in Hoexter and fell there on by his talent. From 1964 to 1965 he studied at the art school in Kassel in the class " Applied Art" and " figure studies" for Adolf book ladder, then until 1968 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel at Arnold Bode.

In 1968, he moved into an apartment and a studio in the Roonstraße in Cologne; his workshops Buthe changed in the following years, more frequently, but Cologne was always his adopted home town. 1970 Buthe took a first trip to Morocco, which led him from now on every year for several months to live and work there. The Orient, its people and its spirituality influenced to a large extent Buthe künstlerischens work, he became "the traveler between the worlds " of Cologne and Marrakech.

In 1976, Michael Buthe the Villa Romana Prize and spent a year in Florence; on the return journey to Cologne was the 1977 fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures of Saladin Ben Ishmael. This was followed by numerous other fairy tales, parables, poems and diary texts. The WDR 1979 turned an artistic portrait Buthe under the title Phantomas phantastico; from the cut of the transmitter itself Buthe distanced later. In 1981, as a visiting professor Buthe a first teaching position at the Dusseldorf Art Academy and moved a year later his large studio in Cologne Ostheim. There, in the old power plant, a former transformer station of Cologne transporting enterprises, he lived in an artists' colony with the actor Udo Kier and the video artist Marcel Odenbach. Kier also worked on several of Buthe performances and was also frequent motive of Buthe's work. From 1983 on he was professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, one of his protégés, among others, Klaus Girnus.

Michael Buthe was in 1991 at his home in Marakkesch and moved into a studio and an apartment in Mallorca, but where he could rarely are. A serious liver disease that had its origins already in a jaundice in youth, caused Buthe growing health problems, so he had to take numerous hospitalizations, especially in Bonn, to be in the 1990s. In 1994 Buthe of poems stones at an exhibition in Cologne's Galerie Orangerie - Reinz. Michael Buthe died in Protestant Forest Hospital in Bad Godesberg; He was buried on 22 November 1994 in Hoexter.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions ( selection):

Group Exhibitions:

Literary work

  • Michael Buthe: The Renaissance had broken out. In: Dietmar Werle: Michael Buthe - Florentine pictures, Ostfildern and Cologne, 1995.
  • Michael Buthe: Tribute to a prince from Sarmakand. In: Stephan von Wiese: Michael Buthe - Skulptura in Deo Fabulosa, Munich 1983.
  • Michael Buthe: Stones, Cologne 1994.
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