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German artist Michael Buthe (1944–1994) worked across a variety of forms and media: textile works, drawings, film, paintings, photographs, collages, diaries and assemblage sculptures. From 1964 to 1965, he studied at the Werkkunstschule in Kassel in Adolf Buchleiter’s applied painting and morphology class, then attended Arnold Bode’s courses until 1968.
He settled in Cologne in 1968, a city that remained of great importance to him. In 1971, he made his first trip to Morocco and thereafter travelled between Cologne and Marrakech. In 1976, he received the Villa Romana Prize and spent a year in Florence. On his return to Cologne in 1977, he began writing Die wunderbare Reise des Saladin Ben Ismael; other tales, parables, poems and diaries followed. His career also included teaching: appointed visiting professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1981, he became a professor there in 1983.
His participation in When Attitudes Became Form in 1969 and in documenta 5 in 1972 also mark his exhibition career; at documenta 5, his works were shown in the «Mythologie Individuelle» section. In 1984, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, predecessor of S.M.A.K., devoted the exhibition Inch Allah to him. Two years later, a work by Buthe was presented in Ghent as part of Chambres d’Amis.
This profile brings together identity references for Michael Buthe and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Germann · Kornfeld · Ketterer · Dobiaschofsky · Lempertz
References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.
pencil, silver paint and collage on wove paper
Ohne Titel
pencil, silver paint and collage on wove paper
Catalogue period : 2025-09-09
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Mischtechnik, collagiert, auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2025-05-31
Published result : 12600 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Mixed media on cardboard
Reise nach Zagora
Mischtechnik auf Karton
Auction date : 2025-05-31
Published result : 5292 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
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Mischtechnik, mit getrockneten Pflanzenteilen collagiert, auf Baumwolle auf Hartfaser
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik, mit getrockneten Pflanzenteilen collagiert, auf Baumwolle auf Hartfaser
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 15000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 12000
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Mischtechnik, mit getrockneten Pflanzenteilen collagiert, auf Baumwolle auf Hartfaser
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik, mit getrockneten Pflanzenteilen collagiert, auf Baumwolle auf Hartfaser
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 15000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 12000
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Gouache
Ohne Titel
gouache
Auction date : 2020-12-09
Published result : 3000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Watercolour and pencil
"Sidi Kavlei".
Aquarell und Bleistift
Catalogue period : 2019-05-09
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700
View the lot at the auction house ↗Acryl, Holz und Muscheln auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-12-06
Published result : 17500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Mixed media on canvas
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-12-06
Published result : 3000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Gouache
My arabian l'amore
gouache
Auction date : 2010-04-24
Published result : 1952 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗Mixed media with collage and wax on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 900
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Ohne Titel (Akt)
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Ohne Titel, 1971
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Ohne Titel, 1969
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Die Göttin, Eine kreisende Schnecke, 1972
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Lackfarbe, Aquarell, Graphit u.a. auf schwerem genarbten Velin.
Ohne Titel, 1988
Lackfarbe, Aquarell, Graphit u.a. auf schwerem genarbten Velin.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mischtechnik. Kohle, Goldfarbe, Gouache und Collage.
Ohne Titel, 1973
Mischtechnik. Kohle, Goldfarbe, Gouache und Collage.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mischtechnik. Goldfarbe, Gouache, Bleistift, Acryl und Collage.
Ohne Titel, 1988
Mischtechnik. Goldfarbe, Gouache, Bleistift, Acryl und Collage.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Objektbild. Öl, Wachs und Collage auf Leinwand.
Ohne Titel, 1977
Objektbild. Öl, Wachs und Collage auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Mixed media and collage on paper.
Ohne Titel
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Aquarell, Bleistift und Silberstift
Date to be documented
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600
View the lot at the auction house ↗Watercolour and pencil
Ohne Titel.
Aquarell und Bleistift
Date to be documented
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 550
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Ohne Titel.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 900
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Ohne Titel.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 900
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Ohne Titel.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 950 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 900
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Komposition.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 220 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400
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Tusche, Bleistift und Collage, je
Konvolut.
Tusche, Bleistift und Collage, je
Lot groupé — prix global
Date to be documented
Group lot — total price
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 550
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