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Jean (Johann) Joseph Bünter

 

1923 Zürich - 1986 Zumikon

 

Original Woodblock Print
Numbered 3/3 - Signed in Pencil by the artist and dated [19]57 and annotated with a note of thanks to (?) Rohr.

Condition: Sheet is considerably yellowed and wrinkled. Tape marks in outer corners

 

Dimensions: 28 X 37 cm

 

The Zurich born artist Jean Buenter studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1948-49) where he came to know Fernand Leger, Othon Friesz and Ossip Zadkine. During those years, was also in close contact with the German expressionist Erich Heckel, whose influence on Buenter is clearly evident in these woodblock prints.

 

Buenter worked in an astonishingly broad variety of media - oil and tempera painting, fresco, woodcuts, engravings, lithography and brush painting.

 

 

Sources:

The Biographic Dictionary of Swiss Artists

and a short typewritten description in German of a 1958 exhibition by the artist at the Staedischen Kunstkammer Strau'hoff in Zuirch which was attached to one of these prints and is reproduced here. The sheet refers to a graphics works by Buenter being available at the Hans Rohr bookshop and gallery in Zurich, and we believe this sheet may have originally been displayed there.

 

 

 

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