Alexander Braun (artist)

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Alexander Braun (* 1966 in Dortmund ) is a German art historian and visual artist .

Life

Alexander Braun studied art history , philosophy and archeology at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1985 to 1993 , including under the art historian Max Imdahl (1925–1988), and at the Free University of Berlin . Since then he has been working as a freelance visual artist. In 1996 Braun received his doctorate from the University of Bochum on the work of the American installation artist Robert Gober . He also wrote for various art magazines, now still sporadically for the magazine KUNSTFORUM international .

From 2001 to 2004 Braun had a teaching position for design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld and in 2003 a teaching position for experimental plastic at the University of Dortmund . From 2007 to 2008 he held a teaching position at the Kunsthochschule Kassel , and in 2011 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

In 2008/09 Braun curated the exhibition Century of Comics - The Newspaper Strip Years , which was shown in museums in Bielefeld, Dortmund, Erlangen and Remscheid. The first German retrospective on the work of the American comic and film pioneer Winsor McCay followed in 2012/13 (Troisdorf, Hanover, Erlangen, Basel, Backnang, Dortmund). He presented extensive publications for both exhibitions, including the complete edition Winsor McCays Little Nemo , which was published by Taschen-Verlag in 2014 and received the Eisner Award in July 2015 . In addition to the traveling exhibition Going West: The Comics' View Towards the West (2014–2016), he curated the exhibition Pioneers of Comics: Another Avant-garde for the Schirn in Frankfurt in 2016 .

Braun had his first solo exhibition of his artistic work in 1996 at the Vienna Secession , others followed in Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the USA. In addition, he has so far been involved in several dozen group exhibitions in different countries.

Braun lived and worked from 2006 to 2014 in Bonn , today in Bad Honnef . In February 2009 he was awarded the City of Bonn Art Prize. In 2011 a working grant from the Art Fund Foundation followed .

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Braun's artistic work includes installations , video art , photography and “sewn” pictures made of felt . The group of works "Walden" has been created since 2005 from pictures, videos, bronzes and vintage photographs painted / drawn with ink on colored wooden backgrounds. In his individual groups of works, Braun follows conceptual approaches that often relate to neighboring disciplines such as literature or music. The "Retablo Project" started in 2003 consists of a collaboration with votive panel painters from Mexico City.

Scholarships and Awards

  • 1999: Ringenberg grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1999: Artist in Residence , Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • 2000: Transfer grant (Spain) from the Kultursekretariat Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • 2000: GWK advancement award of the Westphalian economy
  • 2000: Young Art Scholarship from the City of Lemgo
  • 2002: Rohkunstbau grant , Groß Leuthen Castle, Brandenburg
  • 2009: Art Prize of the City of Bonn
  • 2011: Working grant Art Fund Foundation
  • 2020: Eisner Award in the Best Archival Collection / Project — Strips category

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: Alexander Braun is the new art award winner of the city of Bonn. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger , Bonn, February 19, 2009, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ See KUNSTFORUM international - personal dictionary: Alexander Braun. In: kunstforum.de. Kunstforum International , October 18, 1977, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Blake Hennon: "'Lumberjanes' leads a youth movement at Eisner Awards, and 'Saga' wins big again" , LA Times , July 11, 2015
  4. ↑ Timur Vermes : "At that time we got nervous" , Die Welt , October 4, 2014
  5. ↑ Dana Jennings: "Dreamy Collections of Little Nemo and Moomin" , New York Times , November 14, 2014
  6. ↑ Pioneers of the comic. Another avant-garde (June 23, 2016) tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved September 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund