Jakob Bräckle
Jakob Bräckle (born December 10, 1897 in Winterreute , today a district of Biberach an der Riss ; † October 29, 1987 in Biberach an der Riss) was a German painter .
Life
Bräckle was born as the fifth of nine children of a farming family in Winterreute and was handicapped from childhood because of a failed vaccination against smallpox . After attending the trade school in Biberach, he went to the arts and crafts school in Stuttgart in 1917 . From 1918 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there with Christian Landenberger , Christian Speyer and Heinrich Altherr, among others . After completing his studies, he returned to Winterreute in 1923 .
In 1938 Bräckle joined the NSDAP as a disabled person out of fear of persecution . His pictures of the rural and traditional way of life were well received during the Nazi era . As the so-called “artist of the plaice”, he received wide regional attention and major exhibitions. In the late 1940s, through the architect Hugo Häring , he came into contact with pictures by Kasimir Malewitsch , which were stored in Biberach. Afterwards Bräckle, who had previously mainly painted small-format village scenes of the surrounding area, tried to combine concrete painting with landscape representation in large formats , accompanied by the complete disappearance of people from his pictures. In the opinion of Günther Wirth, he achieved “an extremely high level of simplicity” with two monochrome colored surfaces ( Gelbes Feld , 1981).
Since 1937 he lived in modest circumstances in the Biberach residential area Talfeld in his house, from which after his death his simple studio was faithfully transferred to the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach.
Bräckle described his work - as a path to abstraction - in 1957 as follows: “My work today is only a further development that may lead me to ultimate simplicity. (...) Even if I design nature, my work is far from any external resemblance. To this day, the non-representational is only of value to me if it lies in nature itself. "
Memberships and honors
- 1924 - Member of the Stuttgart Secession
- 1932–1936 - member of the German Association of Artists
- 1938–1945 - member of the NSDAP
- 1967 - Honorary citizen of the city of Biberach
- 1970 - Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1977 - Recognition prize of the Upper Swabian Art Prize together with Werner Höll and André Ficus
- 1977 - Appointment as professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg
- 1978 - Honorary member of the Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg
- 1982 - Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2009 - A street in Ummendorf (near Biberach) was named after him (Bräcklestraße)
literature
- Arnold Stadler : On the way to Winterreute: An excursion into the world of the painter Jakob Bräckle , Jung und Jung, Salzburg, Vienna 2012
- Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present . Hatje, Stuttgart 1982
- Heinrich Geissler : Jakob Bräckle on his 80th birthday. Exhibition in the municipal collections, Braith Mali Museum, Biberach an der Riss, November 6 - December 31, 1977 , Biberach an der Riss: Municipal collections 1977
- August Lämmle: The painter Jakob Bräckle. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of people and homeland, 1934, pp. 392–397.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Bräckle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bräckle in the Third Reich
- Jakob Bräckle denazification files as digital reproduction ( file 1 and file 2 ) in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Bräckle in: Nobert A. Deuchert (Ed.): Art Landscape Oberschwaben, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bräckle, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterreute near Biberach an der Riss |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1987 |
| Place of death | Biberach an der Riss |