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Fritz Busse: Seeing Cities

Fritz Busse: Seeing Cities

Sketching broad and intimate portraits of great cities

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Bill Russell
Nov 20, 2022
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“Times Square” from “New York: City on Many Waters”, 1956

From early in life, Fritz Busse (1903 -1979) was uprooted. He was born in Luxembourg, and studied at Hamburg and Munich, Germany. While he settled for a time in Austria, he eventually moved to California. It was this restlessness and the ability to capture a sense of place in pen, ink, brush and c…

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