Carl Buchheister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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constructivist artist
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Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Carl Buchheister
- Carl Buchheister (17 October 1890 – 2 February 1964) was a German constructivist artist noted for his multiple series of "model paintings" at Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris.
- which he began in 1925.
- He was born in Hanover, Germany.
- Although he was not officially part of the Bauhaus movement, Buchheister was a close friend of Wassily Kandinsky and paralleled many of the social and artistic goals of the Bauhaus school.
- With regard to constructivism, Buchheister was typically more playful and improvisational than his contemporaries, becoming interested in the Dada movement after a collaboration with Kurt Schwitters in the late 1920s which led him to incorporate more varied materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, wood, and twine into his compositions.
- This direction was given much freer rein after World War II and the end of Nazism.
- He died in Hanover in 1964.
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