Alfred von Brühl

Count Alfred von Brühl, the new director of the Art Academy in Königsberg i. Pr., Photo by Nicola Perscheid , 1916

Maria Alfred Nicholas Benno Markus Hubertus Graf von Brühl (* 25. April 1862 in Castle Pförten in Pförten , Kreis Sorau , Brandenburg province ; † 28. February 1922 in Weizenrodau in Swidnica , Lower Silesia ) was a German hunting painters of the Düsseldorf school . From 1916 to 1919 he was director of the Königsberg Art Academy .

Life

Von Brühl, offspring of the Brühl family , fifth son of the Prussian landlord Friedrich Stephan von Brühl and his wife Paula, née Countess von Spee (1826–1889), daughter of the Düsseldorf District Administrator Franz von Spee , studied painting in Düsseldorf . There he was a private student of the hunting painter Christian Kröner and the history painter Albert Baur the Elder. Ä. Then he switched to the animal painter Hermann Baisch in Karlsruhe . In Düsseldorf von Brühl was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and the association founded in 1898 to organize art exhibitions . Von Brühl regularly participated in exhibitions in Düsseldorf, and he also exhibited in Berlin and Munich . On September 12, 1908, he married Theresia von Lobkowitz (1876–1958) in Prague , the children Georg-Alfred (* 1910), Maria Anna (* 1912) and Ferdinand (* 1913) in Düsseldorf and their daughter Maria Paula in Wolfegg (* 1915) gave birth.

On October 1, 1916, von Brühl was appointed director of the Königsberg Art Academy after Ludwig Dettmann left . After the November Revolution of 1918 , students at the Art Academy returned from military service. Under their pressure, a general meeting of teachers and students on January 20, 1919 decided to re-establish the academy. Von Brühl then announced his resignation. After he had been on leave from May 13, 1919 to restore his health, his resignation was approved on July 1, 1920. Retired from Brühl to Silesia with his wife.

Works (selection)

Hunter at the ready , 1883

• Hunter at the ready , 1883
• Rutting deer and hinds in the woods , 1898
• At the wallow , 1902
• Deer at twilight , 1903
• Capital deer in a forest clearing
• Autumn morning in Niederlausitz
• Attack of the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment near Mars La Tour
• Deer on the hill
• Wild boars in the snow

literature

• Brühl, Alfred Graf von . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 2 : Brann-Einslin . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-094656-4 , p. 118 .
• Brühl, Alfred Graf von. In: Werner Timm : Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945. Prussia-Gesellschaft Duisburg, Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Prussia-Schriftenreihe, Werk 11, Essen / Regensburg 1982, p. 66 ( kant.uni-mainz.de PDF).
• Walter Cohen : Brühl, Alfred Graf von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 104 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Alfred von Brühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alfred von Brühl , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Alfred von Bruehl , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
• Alfred, Graf von Brühl , genealogical data sheet in the portal geneall.net
• Alfred Brühl, Reichsgraf von , genealogical data sheet in the portal gedbas.genealogy.net (there different date of death: February 18, 1922)
• Brühl: 10e) Maria Alfred Nikolaus Benno Markus Hubertus , genealogical entry in the angelfire.com portal
• Count Alfred von Brühl as the new director of the Königsberg Art Academy , portrait photo by Nicola Perscheid

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on August 22, 2016
2. ^ Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier: Art for the Republic. The art policy of the Prussian Ministry of Culture 1918 to 1932. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004371-5 , p. 99 ( books.google.de ).