Carlo Büchner
painting - animation - cartoon
1986
Born in Emmendingen
near Freiburg i. Br.
2005 - 2007
training as a businessman
in wholesale and foreign trade
2007 - 2010
Academy for Communication Freiburg (graphic design)
(Lecturer including author, designer & cartoonist
Michael Ryba)
2008
Founding of the business 'Carlo Büchner Arts'
First illustrative commissions (book illustrations,
building drawings, etc.)
Various film recordings (including plays, events)
2009
First exhibition (‘Painting | Cartoon’)
2010
Recording his first poems in the recording studio
First publications on YouTube
Painting for Bud Spencer (presented in Rome by the
Bud Spencer Movie team around Karl-Martin Pold)
2011
Second exhibition ('Satirical Drawings')
2012
Third exhibition
(as part of hosting a magic show)
First cabaret performance
(Prologue to a larger carnival event)
Fourth exhibition (“Maximum perspective”)
Start of graphic support for the LernBar tutoring
school (Germany / Switzerland)
2013
First cartoon animations (with his character Ray on
the YouTube channel of the same name)
First song parodies on YouTube (including 'Mein
Ding' by Udo Lindenberg)
Animated film commercial for Otto Waalkes-Porzellan
(cooperation with Thomas M. Stein & Ritzenhoff)
First calendar at Calvendo
(Carlo Büchner - LAUGH..?)
Animation video for the song 'Schisskatzeblues'
(with Otto Waalkes & Willy Astor)
2014
Animation video for the song 'Fischfinflipflops'
(with Otto Waalkes & Willy Astor)
Parody 'Streets Of Love' (Rolling Stones)
First satirical drawings in Chilli Magazine FR
Second calendar at Calvendo
(Carlo Büchner - NEW YEAR, NEW FUN...)
Production RAY from fruit gum
(Cooperation with Nordsee Bär)
2015
Animation video for the song 'LoseTiger'
(with Willy Astor)
Auction painting 'Patch Adams & Ray'
(United Charity benefiting the
Children's Cancer Aid Freiburg)
Parody 'Here Comes The Sun' (The Beatles)
Sparkasse employee magazine TIMES
Start of regular cartoon series with RAY
Sparkasse advertising panorama Badische Zeitung
with Ray (advertising for the Freiburg real estate
exchange 2015)
badenova cartoon commercials (including dubbing of
the character Gordon Grips)
First explanatory video (drawing, editing &
speaking)
for the LernBar tutoring school
Animation video intro/outro
'After the nap'
(with Ottfried Fischer & the Pilgerbilder company)
Third calendar at Calvendo
(Carlo Büchner - TO A NEW...)
2016
Auction painting 'Udo Lindenberg - My Thing'
(United Charity benefiting the
Children's Cancer Aid Freiburg)
First animated film cinema spot for badenova
(drawing, animation, voice)
Fourth calendar at Calvendo
(Carlo Büchner - ANOTHER YEAR!?)
Children's bouncy castle design for the badenova
2017
Auction painting 'Bud Spencer'
(United Charity benefiting the
Children's Cancer Aid Freiburg)
Fifth exhibition (“drawn by humor”)
First RAY motifs for Café Schmidt Freiburg
Book illustration for
‘Love, life, pancakes’
by Volker Ferkau & Mike Schwarz
Badenova brochure ‘Grips Tips’
for school children
Mascot design & opening live drawing for
onlyfitness in Bern
Fifth calendar at Calvendo
(Carlo Büchner - PICTURES EVERY YEAR!)
2018
Mascot design basement office machines /
Keller Systemhaus Aachen
First book ‘Carlo Büchner’s FULL SHOT’
(Football cartoons, Schmidt Verlag, 2018,
Release: June 1, 2018)
Sixth exhibition (’FULL SHOT’)
2019
Seventh exhibition (‘Bottom Line Humor’) Hamburg,
Hafencity
Book illustration for ‘Castles in the High Black
Forest’ by Dr. Roland Weis
Cartoons, promo & moderation for ‘Tannengold’
Festival 2019
Animation video for the songs 'Gib Niemals Auf'
(Willy Astor feat. Roger Rekless) &
‘Owl Eulalia’ (Willy Astor)
Album: ‘Childish Ocean 2 - The Zoo Is Not a Logical
Garden’ (Willy Astor)
Universal Music Group
2020
Advertising cooperation with Raiffeisenbank
Breisgau with Ray as an advertising figure
(including house wall banners, digital and print
advertising)
Animation video for the song 'Ingo Knito'
(Willy Astor)
Album: ‘Childish Ocean 2 - The Zoo Is Not a Logical
Garden’ (Willy Astor)
Universal Music Group
Eighth Exhibition (‘Fine Syrup’)
Group exhibition with the Galerie Freistil, among
others
Nissis art canteen
Hamburg, Hafencity
2021
Animation videos for ‘OTTO Fröhliche’
(Christmas show Otto Waalkes & guests, ARD)
2022
Painting donation at the Blue Ball in Hamburg
in favor of the UKE children's cancer ward
Animation videos for ‘OTTO Total’
(TV show Otto Waalkes & guests, RTL)
Animation videos for ‘OTTO’s fairy tale show’
(TV show Otto Waalkes & guests, RTL)
2023
Ninth exhibition
(‘Hamburg Your Heads’) 42 portraits
Studio28 Milky Way
Hamburg, Pöseldorf (Rotherbaum)
2024
Tenth exhibition
(’To The Moon And Beyond’) oil paintings
Vernissage Pulverfass
Hamburg, Reeperbahn
Gallery Art Box Berlin
Timmendorf