Carl Buchheister (17 October 1890 – 2 February 1964) was a German constructivist artist noted for his multiple series of "model paintings"''Constructivist Design, published by Galerie Lambert Weyl, 1958'' at Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris. which he began in 1925. He was born in

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. Although he was not officially part of the

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movement, Buchheister was a close friend of

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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

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movement after a collaboration with

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in the late 1920s which led him to incorporate more varied materials such as

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, wood, and twine into his compositions. This direction was given much freer rein after

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and the end of

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. He died in Hanover in 1964.

Bibliography

*PONTUS HULTEN, LAMBERT WEYL, Constructivist Design. Edited by Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris, 1958. Printed in Paris, 1958. Carl Buchheister (1890–1964). Ausgewählte Schriften und Briefe. Herausgegeben mit einem Essay von

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. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1980. Buchheister, Elisabeth u. Willi Kemp.Carl Buchheister 1890–1964. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten (und) gegenständlichen Arbeiten. 2 vols, Darmstadt u. Nürnberg 1984–86.

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