Wolf von dem bussche biography of rory
Wolf von dem bussche biography of rory
Wolf von dem bussche biography of rory and ryan!
By Lewis Dolinsky
Wolf von dem Bussche, a longtime Berkeley resident whose photographs are in many public and private collections, died in Mission Viejo CA on Aug.
12 at age 80.
His son, Dr. Nicolas von dem Bussche, said the cause of death was Alzheimer’s.
Writing in ARTweek magazine in 1982, San Francisco Chronicle art critic Thomas Albright said, “Von dem Bussche is not a radical innovator; his work falls solidly within, or straddles, the classical traditions of 20th century photography:…His originality is not in his forms but in their feeling — a subtle undertow of expressionism bordering on the surreal.”
Albright put Mr.
von dem Bussche in the company of Andre Kertesz, Alfred Stieglitz and Henri-Cartier Bresson.
Berkeley attorney Bill Goodman, a major collector of photography, and a longtime friend of Mr. von dem Bussche, said he had a superb eye.
“His work was just different enough to be original,’’ Goodman said.
“He was meticulous, which was both a blessing and a cur