Bidspirit auction | Carl Buchheister

Carl Buchheister - Carl Buchheister 1890 Hanover - 1964 Hanover - ”Composition P 28 with 3 lines brown and gray” - (1954) Mixed media/paper, mounted on cardboard. Glued to artist's frame. 31 x 24 cm, 40 x 30 cm (dimensions w. frame). Signed, dated and titled on the reverse: Carl Buchheister / Hannover / Deutschland / Komposition: P28/1954. / 1963 v. Buchheister. Frame. - Listing: WVZ: Buchheister, Elisabeth. Willi Kemp. Carl Buchheister. Nuremberg, 1984, p. 362. no. 58 Buchheister studied at the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum. He settled in Hanover as a freelance artist and founded the artists' association ”Die Abstrakten Hannover” in 1927, together with Kurt Schwitters and others. He was also a member of the Parisian group ”Abstraction-Création”. After 1945, Buchheister lived and worked in seclusion and from 1958 he lived in France for half the year. His works are represented in international collections.