Albert Braun (sculptor, 1899)

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Heinrich Albert Braun (born September 21, 1899 in Erbisdorf ; † May 4, 1962 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and restorer.

Life

Childhood and First World War

Albert Braun was the fourth child of the Steiger Carl Heinrich Braun and his wife Emilie Pauline, nee Lange. On October 22nd, 1899, he was baptized as a Protestant in Erbisdorf (now part of Brand-Erbisdorf ). The family later moved to Meißen , where Albert Braun was confirmed on April 5, 1914. From 1915 to 1917 he attended the drawing school of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory . In 1917 he was called up for military service. On October 10, 1918, he received the Friedrich August Medal in bronze. Braun returned home wounded from military service in 1919 and was honored with the wound badge in black on May 20, 1919 .

Studies and World War II

From 1920 to 1924 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy , later he was a master student of Karl Albiker . In 1928 he received the Hugo Göpfert Prize from the Hugo Göpfert Foundation . From 1929 to 1933 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden ; In 1934 he became a member of the Association of German Sculptors.

On April 4, 1934, he married Elsa Emma, ​​widowed Schuster, née Herbst (* 1893). From 1939 to 1945 he was called up for military service. In 1945 he suffered the loss of his studio and with it his artistic works due to the multiple bombings of Dresden . He returned from the war in July 1945.

After the Second World War

A short time later he worked as the manager responsible for the salvage work in the Dresden Zwinger and later in the court church . From October 1st, 1945 he was the sculptor's director of the Dresden Zwingerbauhütte and at the same time witnessed the beginning of the rebuilding of the Zwinger. In 1947 he became the artistic director of the sculpture workshop for the Zwinger and the Hofkirche in Dresden. From 1950 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . As part of the Zwingerbauhütte he trained young sculptors like Gertraud Möhwald .

Braun used some rather modest rooms in the Dresden Zwinger that were still under construction (these were later converted for the gallery café that opened in 2001). Together with artists such as Wilhelm Landgraf , Fritz Schlesinger , Walter Flemming and Rudolf Kreische they served him as a studio and copper driving workshop.

From 1951 to 1955 the sculptural restoration of the plastic jewelry on the main building of the Humboldt University in Berlin followed . His wife died on March 19, 1953. A year later, on July 3, he married Ernestine Agnes Renate, née Jeremias (1907-2004).

Flower girl in Neustadt in Saxony, corner of Böhmische Strasse / Markt

From 1954 to 1962 he worked for the restoration of the sculptural works of art at the Italian Village , at the Sempergalerie and at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden. He also worked at Moritzburg Castle , Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen, Hubertusburg Castle in Wermsdorf and in the Baroque Gardens and Großsedlitz Castle . The sandstone figure Flower Girl was created around 1955 and has stood on a building on the Neustadt market in Saxony since 1956 . Originally intended as an allegory “Neustadtia”, it pays tribute to the art flower workers in Neustadt.

Due to his commitment to the reconstruction of Dresden, there was little time for his own works; the loss of his sculptures during the war was a major setback for him. It is known that, among other things, he created a tomb (a figurative angel ) for the Arthur Böhme family from Dresden on the Outer Briesnitz cemetery .

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 203-204, 364-365.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Special catalog Albert Braun estate - Mscr.Dresd.App.2552.
  2. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts .
  3. ↑ Gallery cafe in the former Braun studio of the Dresden Zwinger starts today with trial operations. Saxon State Ministry of Finance , October 16, 2001, archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed on March 11, 2012 (press release).
  4. ↑ on the year of death cf. We include in our personal intercession. (PDF; 425 KB) In: St. Michaelsbote Dresden-Bühlau, February / March 2004. P. 13 , accessed on November 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Art in Neustadt (part 5): The "flower girl" by Albert Braun (1899–1962). In: Neustädter Anzeiger, 13/2012. June 29, 2012. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Heinrich Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbisdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1962
Place of death Dresden