Frank Buchser
Paintings
Portrait of an American Ranchers Wife
Asceticism and lust for life
Spanish Backyard in Sunlight
Fisher Girl sitting on the Beach
Young Girl with Basket at a Sea Shore
Portrait of a Girl
As sweet as watermelons
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Portrait of an American Ranchers Wife
Frank Buchser (1828–1890) was a Swiss painter.
Buchser was the son of the peasant and host Niklaus Joseph and his wife Anna Maria b. Walker. He completed an apprenticeship as an organ and piano builder in Solothurn and Berne and took drawing lessons with the Bernese artist Heinrich von Arx (1802-58), the student Martin Distelis. In 1847 he decided to become a painter after a trip through Paris to Florence and Rome. He served in the papal Switzerland Conservatory, which enabled him to study painting at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1848 he joined briefly the troops of Garibaldi. From 1849 to 1850 he studied in Paris, 1850 to 1852 in Antwerp. From 1852 to 1853 he traveled to Spain, where he was a painter and draftsman.
Even after 1853, he preferred to look for his field of activity in the distance, so in England, where in 1862 he became a commissioner of the Department of Swiss Art at the World Exposition in London. Personal highlights of his travels were a ride to the royal city Fès in Morocco in 1858 and his stay in the USA from 1866 to 1871. Johann August Sutter portrayed. At the end of 1866 and the beginning of 1867, he caught some attention with his social criticism of blacks in Washington and New York. Buchser spent his last years of life mainly in his native fountain, where from 1884 he taught Cuno Amiet.
Frank Buchser
During his regular stays in Switzerland Buchser pursued not only artistic but also political interests. From 1864, for example, he briefly acted as Ammann von Feldbrunnen. In 1865, together with Rudolf Koller and Ernst Stückelberg, he founded an artists' association, the later society of Swiss painters, sculptors and architects (GSMBA). In his last years of life, he supported a reform of the exhibition system and at the same time pioneered the Federal Decree of 1887 to promote and raise Swiss art. From 1888 to 1890 he was one of the members of the Federal Commission of Art. Buchser was a freemason. [1]
Great achievements as "Buchser researchers" are Dr. To Gottfried Wälchli (1899-1960); However, a work list of the artist does not yet exist. Buchser's stylistically versatile life-size includes about 1000 works, of which about 300 are paintings. The rest are mostly self-contained oil sketches often executed with spirited, rapid strokes, which demonstrate the artist's distinctive sense of color and light.
The most important groups of works of the artist are in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn (80 paintings) [2] and in the Kunstmuseum Basel (over 1000 oil sketches, drawings and watercolors as well as sketchbooks). [3] Buchser had thought of these collections, and Solothurn was allowed to receive the paintings and Basel. Since then, more than 200 photographs from the 1850s to 1880s, which Buchser had acquired on his extensive journeys as source of inspiration and material, have been preserved in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Basler Kunstmuseum. [4] In 2014 a private museum was opened for the artist in Bettlach SO.
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