German artist Hans-Ulrich Buchwald died last month of complications from a stroke in November. He was 83.
Born in 1925 in Breslau, Germany, Buchwald became involved in art at an early age, thanks to a family filled with artists who were influenced by such icons as Oscar Schlemmer.
Buchwald founded the Scharniertheater, worked on theatrical puppetry, watercolors, linoleum prints and woodcuts. His work spanned subject matter of humor, eroticism and man’s affinity to nature.
Windy City Times interviewed Buchwald in 2005. In a profile (run in WCT’s Sept. 14, 2005 issue), he discussed everything from being a prisoner of war in the 1940s to his belief in the fluidity of sexuality. (It was not until his death of his wife, Hella, in 1993 that Buchwald announced his attraction to men.)
Among those surviving him is his daughter, Mariana.
Buchwald’s works have on been on display at The Leigh Gallery, 3306 N. Halsted, since 2005 and will continue to be shown there.