Dorfstrasse bei Liethe I

Relatively little is known about Friedrich Busack, other than that he was born 1899 in Hannover and was a member of the Neue Sachlichkeit circle in Hannover which included Ernst Thoms, Grete Jurgens, Gerta Overbeck and Hans Mertens. Although clearly influenced by the early Russian landscapes of Marc Chagall, Busack finds his own style expressed in a colourful objectivity, which can also be found in some of Conrad Felixmuller's best pictures of the early 1920s. Friedrich Busack died at the age of only 34 due to an injury received in World War I.