Lothar Bührmann

Biography

Lothar Bührmann, born in Bremen in 1946, is a freelance artist and still lives near his hometown. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, e.g. exhibited in England, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the Netherlands and the USA. In 1997 he received the Villa Ichon Peace and Culture Prize. In 2003/04 he received a scholarship from the German Academy Casa Baldi in Olevano Romana, Italy. His literary cartoons appeared in newspapers, magazines and books, e.g. in Tiled interior (1996) and Texts and signs II (2015).
He passed away in August 2019.

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Lothar Bührmann in Words and Pictures

"Lothar was a poet enthusiast. One for whom texts were the focus of his creativity and artistic work, and also language, especially poetic language, was a base for his cartoons. An artist who didn't talk long, but drew enthusiastically, and had a big heart for language and written images. The images in his cartoons were signatures and accompaniments to the book pages, were endorsements of what was happening in the book. And they continue harmoniously through the book in minimalist form, like the poems themselves. The poems and the pictures cannot be separated, they are unified in a unique composition, they are twofold pictures: in the text and in the cartoons.”

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