 Buthe was also a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1983 until his death at the age of 50 in 1994.Amongst others, Klaus Girnus and Stefan Kürten were two of his master students.Despite enjoying success throughout Europe, he was relatively under-discussed amongst his contemporaries in America, but has come under recent re-examination with a number of posthumous solo and group exhibitions.