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Carl Büchner

South African 1921-2003 


Born in Somerset East, Carl Büchner studied History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand and Fine Art at the Witwatersrand Technical College School of Arts and Crafts under Eric Byrd and Maurice van Essche. He qualified as a teacher and started his teaching career at the Pretoria Art Centre with Walter Battiss and Le Roux Smith Le Roux. After teaching at numerous Transvaal schools, he worked as an Art Inspector for the Cape Education Department in Grahamstown, was Principal of the Stellenbosch Art Centre, and lectured at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. He was a Trustee of the South African National Gallery for many years and an art critic for Die Burger and The Cape Times. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 1956 and 1960 Quadrennial Exhibitions, the 1982 Cape Town Triennial, and the 1963 São Paulo Biennale. He also won the fifth annual Artists of Fame & Promise competition in 1963. He retired from teaching in 1970 to become a full-time artist, and painted until his death in 2003.

The human figure has featured prominently in Büchner’s paintings throughout his career, with slightly elongated figures nostalgically portrayed through expressionistic distortion. In his early paintings, he frequently used a palette knife to create textured and tonally varied surfaces. In later paintings he created texture through modulated brush strokes, probably influenced by the contemporary Italian school during his tour of Europe in the late 1950s. Büchner’s paintings can be closely associated in style and subject matter with his mentor and colleague Maurice van Essche. Carl Büchner is represented in numerous public collections throughout South Africa.

Image courtesy H. J. Strydom.


288 lots offered      76.39% sold      ZAR 4 992 219
 

Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Carl Büchner; Portrait of a Boy
28 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Ecce Homo
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 45 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Stillewe met Bak en Vrugte (Still Life with Bowl and Fruit)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 136 560
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Stillewe met Vrugte (Still Life with Fruit)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 23 450
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Oggendstraat (Morning Street)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 9 967
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Abstrak Geboue (Abstract Buildings)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 21 105
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; White Mosque
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 2 580
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Stillewe met Avocado's (Still Life with Avocados)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 11 725
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Skemer Eetkamer (Twilight Dining Room)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 8 794
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Beker en Vrugte (Jug and Fruit)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Blou Nar (Blue Clown)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 19 933
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Carl Büchner; Donkerkop Seun met Oranje Trui (Dark Haired Boy with Orange Turtleneck)
22 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 10 553
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.