Alois Broch
Alois Broch (born November 27, 1864 in Vienna ; died October 21, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German painter .
Life
Broch came from a merchant family of Carl Broch (father) and Johanna Broch geb. Tauski (mother) and his four siblings Eugenie, Rudolf, Phillipp and Helene. His wife Gisela died in 1911 at the age of 39, their daughter Elise was 15 years old at the time.
Broch spent many years of his childhood in Budapest (Hungary), when he was mainly active as an artist in Berlin and Munich.
On April 14, 1883, at the age of 19, he joined the "natural class" of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . (Matriculation number 4343)
Together with his first wife Gisela, he first moved to Cologne, where their daughter Elise was born in 1896 and later returned to Munich. In 1903 he joined the Munich Art Association. Only a few years later he moved to Berlin, the city that was to remain his home and main place of work until his death in 1937. His reputation as a portrait painter, in particular, took him on various trips within Germany and abroad, including Prague, England and Moscow. During his lifetime he made a name for himself as a portrait painter for prominent figures from business and the nobility (for example, for Baroness von Bohlen at Lerchenbronn Castle near Luben, Grand Duke Suchomlinow, etc.), but also genre paintings in the Biedermeier style, landscapes and street scenes were among his preferred subjects. Broch also hired himself as an illustrator. Broch's excellent order book enabled him to afford an external studio in Prinz-Regenten Strasse in addition to his workstation in the Berlin apartment at Kaiserallee 32. Various photos of completed works have been preserved from there, the whereabouts of which are often unclear. For the execution of the orders of his client "Kunstverlag Herrmann und Kupfer", Broch even employed staff in his studio in order to be able to complete the enormous amount of work on time.
Painting Brochs were distributed in large numbers by various art publishers on artist postcards and oil prints in the 1910s and 1920s.
His daughter Elisa Broch also painted, often under the pseudonym Auguste Sommer.
Broch died in 1939 at the age of 75 in Berlin-Zehlendorf .
In 2010 a picture by Alois Broch from looted art from the USA was returned to the Pirmasens City Museum.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matriculation
- ↑ Maximilian Bern : Funny hours . Ed .: Friedrich Gutsch. Publishing house of the Hofbuchhandlung Friedrich Gutsch, Karlsruhe and Leipzig, Karlsruhe and Leipzig.
- ^ United States Attorney Southern District of New York: "Department of Justice" publication. United States Attorney Southern District of New York, July 14, 2010, accessed March 6, 2017 .
Web links
- Alois Broch Society The work and life of Alois Broch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broch, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1939 |
| Place of death | Berlin |