Erwin von Busse also known as Granand or Erwin von Busse-Granand 12 January — 10 April was a German writer, painter, theater director, art historian and art critic. He had a brother Rudolf Maximilian von Busse — Erwin von Busse went to school in Magdeburg and Kiel.
He spent the next two years performing his compulsory military service. Beginning in , he studied law in Munich , changing to art history in In , he interrupted his studies for a trip to Brazil and a sojourn in Paris. Reproductions of two recent Delaunay works, St. Von Busse returned to his studies before the end of , now at the University of Bern.
There he received his doctorate in with a thesis on Entwicklungsgeschichte des Problems der Massendarstellungen in der italienischen Malerei The Historical Evolution of the Depiction of the Masses in Italian painting. Von Busse then turned to the theater and before long settled in Berlin, where he edited Die Scene [ de ] , a theater magazine, in He directed several productions there between — By , he was no longer associated with a theater.
Its five stories depict a variety of sexually charged encounters between men, with characters that range from military school cadets and dance-hall regulars to a foreign businessman and a burglar. Von Busse wrote with discretion to avoid government censorship. Regional courts in Berlin and Leipzig in and banned the distribution of von Busse's collection of stories because of "indecency" and ordered all copies confiscated or destroyed. An attempt to ban this volume failed.
In , von Busse contributed a slight volume to an art history series. By this time he was using a composite name, having added his pseudonym to his birth name to become "Erwin von Busse-Granand. Using that name he emigrated to Brazil in He became a Catholic in and in London on 10 April of that year married Simonette Mathilde Kowarick, a wealthy woman and native of Brazil.
