Carl Brun
Carl Brun (born September 2, 1851 in Hamburg ; † January 6, 1923 in Zurich ), entitled to residency in Geneva , was a Swiss art historian .
Life
Carl Brun was the son of a Geneva businessman of the same name. From 1869 he lived in Zurich, where he studied art history at the university with Johann Rudolf Rahn and Salomon Vögelin . Study trips took him to neighboring countries and to Spain. In 1882 he married Anna Spyri, the sister of Emilie Kempin-Spyri and niece of Johanna Spyri .
From 1883 to 1921 he was a teacher of art history at the Zurich Higher Töchterschule . He was also a private lecturer at the University of Zurich from 1890 to 1902 and ao from 1902 to 1921. Professor of Art History. In addition, he was a private lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) from 1902 to 1923 . Brun was a board member of the Patriotic Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, founded in Zofingen in 1880 .
The Swiss Kunstverein he was appointed in 1905 editor of the excited by Friedrich Otto Pestalozzi (1846-1940) Swiss artist lexicon appointed. He directed the development of this encyclopedia, which appeared in four volumes, until the supplementary volume was published in 1917. It was the first comprehensive collective biography of Swiss art. The continuation of this standard work served as the basis for the artist lexicon of Switzerland, 20th century.
From 1890 to 1922 Brun was head of the graphic collection at ETH Zurich as the successor to Gottfried Kinkel . and from 1891 to 1922 President of the Gottfried Keller Foundation . In addition to his work for the Swiss Artist Encyclopedia , he worked for Julius Meyer as early as 1882 when he edited the second edition of Georg Kaspar Nagler's Neue Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon . From 1885 he was also the author of numerous articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). In 1897 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich.
Publications (selection)
- Bernardino Luini . Zurich 1880
- Jacques-Louis David and the French Revolution. Zurich 1890 archive.org
- Gottfried Keller as a painter. Orell, Zurich 1894
- Directory of the more important works of art in the Künstlergut zu Zürich. Zurich 1901
- (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. 4 volumes, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1905–1917 DNB 560654456
Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1967, DNB 458917060- Volume 1: A-G, 1905 archive.org
- Volume 2: H-R, 1908 archive.org
- Volume 3: S-Z, 1913 archive.org
- Volume 4: Supplement A – Z, 1917 archive.org
- An artist's life in the 19th century. Alfred Rethel . Zurich 1914
- All ADB articles by Carl Brun
literature
- Carl Brun. In: Hermann Aellen (Hrsg.): Schweizerisches Zeitgenossen-Lexikon. Bern 1921, pp. 97-98 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Publications by and about Carl Brun in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Publications by and about Carl Brun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Carl Brun in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Katharina Battaglia-Greber: Brun, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2004 .
- Carl Brun at Swiss Elites (Base de données des élites suisses au XXe's)
Individual evidence
- ^ Katharina Battaglia-Greber: Brun, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2004 , accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ^ Collection profile - Graphic Collection ETH Zurich
- ↑ a b Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 1, 1905, foreword SV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brun, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brun-Spyri, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1923 |
| Place of death | Zurich |