Michael Buckler
Visual artist (BBK), painter, designer, graphic artist, scientific draughtsman, illustrator and precision metal / mechatronic engineer
Born 1947 in Würzburg
Boarding school and precision mechanics apprenticeship years
1968-73 Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (HfbK), studied under Prof. Wolfgang Ludwig and Prof. Gerhard Braun
1969/70 Exhibition: Galerie Daedalus, Berlin with Wolfgang Ludwig, Erich Buchholz, Max Bill, Richard P. Lohse, Jörg Glattfelder, Victor Bonato, Stefanos Gazis et al. (catalog)
1971 First solo exhibition: Galerie Daedalus, Berlin, Constructivism: 'Operational program against the separation of content and form' (interactive art objects)
Since 1973 Paintings, drawings, prints and objects in private and public collections (Ministry of Science and Art Stuttgart, Augustiner-Museum Freiburg, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe and Freiburg). Exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France, England
Study trips to Italy, France, USA, India, Chile, Argentina
1975-2005 Scientific graphics: Illustrations (artist views) for medical publications of worldwide projects of Ciba-Geigy, Novartis / Basel, Roche, Hoechst / Behring and others.
1977 Project 'SpielBild' - with numerous exhibitions and publications
1999 Studies with meteoritic materials (thin sections) for painterly citation of her 'Genesis Design'
2002 'Dynamic Geometry' studies for kinetic constructivist art objects (painting)
2005 Programming development for the spatio-temporal synchronisation of kinetic sequences and positioning
2009 Prototype development in hard-, software and sensor technology for the integrated control of precision-mechanical kinetic image objects (painting, constructivism)
2013-16 Work on choreographies of kinetic-constructivist artworks (image objects / kinetic painting on canvas)
2017 ˚K1˚, kinetic object, 56 x 66 x 4 cm (Hommage à Ljubow Sergejewna Popowa, († 1924), kinetics, painting on canvas: Choreography of Constructivist Figurations (Geometry in Motion)
2018-20 Kinetic Constructivism: publication of kinetic image-objects (unique pieces only), painting (canvas on wood and metal). Concept and kinetics studies, development of the pictorial objects ˚K2˚, ˚K3˚, ˚K4˚...
2022-24 Kinetic circular object realised –
a square counterpart in realisation (both objects 6-axis, each 38 x 38 x 4.9 cm)
2025 New website with film sequences of choreographable kinetic-constructivist pictorial objects in preparation (previews on request)
Art meets Science © 2025 Michael Buckler | Art in Dialog with Science and Technologies
TriRegio – Art and Culture Freiburg / Karlsruhe, Strassburg, Basel / Zurich