Agathe Maria Bunz
author · photographer
Agathe Maria Bunz (1929–2006) was a German photographer and painter. After completing a goldsmith's apprenticeship, she studied photography and script art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg starting in 1958. She worked as a photo reporter for the magazine 'Kristall' from 1962 to 1966, specializing in art history. From 1967 to 1987, she lived in Mytilini on the Greek island of Lesbos, where she established herself as a painter, primarily creating oil landscapes of the island. She returned to Hamburg for her final decades, where she died in 2006.[1,2]
Themes
- Lesbos landscapes
- art history
- script art
- photography
Books
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Platero und seine Freundeauthor · photographer
Works by Agathe Maria Bunz
- Platero und seine Freunde 1962 · Heinrich Ellermann · book · de Photography by Agathe Bunz; script cut from paper by Werner Bunz.
- Olivenbäume 1968 · Friedrich Wittig · book · de Co-authored/created with Werner Bunz.
Exhibitions
- 1981 Agathe Bunz – Lesbos, Landschaften Glyptothek München, Munich solo
- 1981 Agathe Bunz – Lesbos, Landschaften Galerie im Rathaus, Berlin-Tempelhof solo
- 1985 Agathe Bunz – Ausstellung Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck solo
- 1989 Agathe Bunz – Ausstellung Spielbank Hamburg, Hamburg solo