Arik Brewer

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Arik Brauer in the Latal Gallery (Zurich 1991)

Arik Brauer , real name Erich Brauer (born January 4, 1929 in Vienna ; † January 24, 2021 there ), was an Austrian painter , graphic artist , set designer, singer and poet . He is considered to be one of the main representatives of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

life and work

Brauer was born in Ottakring as the son of a Jewish shoemaker from Lithuania . As staunch supporters of the ideals of the Red Vienna , the parents met at a course at the Ottakringer Volksheim . First the February battles in 1934 , which he saw as the root of his “lifelong anti-fascism ”, and from 1938 the rule of the National Socialists ended his carefree childhood in Vienna in the 1930s.

“And then they just beat me up ... I was scared to death. I thought they were going to kill me now, and I was pretty hurt too. I have understood that I can neither defend myself nor should I defend myself. The passers-by were also standing around. Of course, those who didn't want to see it went on, but those who wanted to see it confessed, made comments, laughed. Of course I later witnessed this whole persecution, but that was definitely the worst turning point in my life for me. "

- Remembrance of the November pogroms in Vienna in 1938

Brauer's father died in a concentration camp , he survived in hiding in Vienna in hiding. After the war, the young brewer initially joined the KPÖ , but soon turned away from the communist movement in disappointment.

Until 1951 Brauer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Robin Christian Andersen and Albert Paris Gütersloh . During this time he founded the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism with Ernst Fuchs , Rudolf Hausner , Wolfgang Hutter , Anton Lehmden and Helmut Leherb . From 1947 he also studied singing at the Music School of the City of Vienna . Between 1951 and 1954 he cycled through Europe and Africa , which he later processed in the song Reise nach Afrika . In 1954/55 he lived as a singer and dancer in Israel and in 1956 appeared as a dancer in the Raimund Theater in Vienna. In the following year he married Naomi Dahabani, an Israeli woman of Yemeni descent, in Israel and moved with her to Paris , where the couple earned their living as the Israeli singing duo Neomi et Arik Bar-Or . He had his first successful solo exhibition in Paris.

Ernst Fuchs , Arik Brauer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser (by Gert Chesi , 1973)
Arik Brauer by Gert Chesi

When Brauer left the Parisian bohemia in 1964 and returned to Vienna, the artists of the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism were already enjoying great popularity, and there was a world traveling exhibition from 1953 to 1965. In addition to Vienna, Brauer has since then also been based in the artist village of En Hod in Israel, where he created an artistically designed house from a ruin. He summed up his conception of architecture, which is close to Friedensreich Hundertwasser , in the song “ Do not believe in angles and live in a round house ”. At this time he also began set design for the Vienna State Opera ( Medea by Luigi Cherubini , 1972; directed by August Everding ), the Zurich Opera House , the Theater an der Wien and the Paris Opera ( Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , 1977; directed by Horst Zankl , Conductor Karl Böhm ).

HC Artmann had already encouraged him during a visit in Paris (“Burli, des muasst mochen”) to make his songs written in the Viennese dialect public. In dialect he wrote, as he explained, because it is "the language of the working class " in which "the poetry of the street" resides. Brauer's singing career peaked in the 1970s. For him, the success came as a surprise and unexpected. He had never seen himself as a pop singer, but as a painter. With songs like Sie hab'n a Haus builds and Sein Köpferl im Sand (“Behind my, front of mine”) on the long-playing record Arik Brauer , 1971 (two golds), or the long-playing record Sieben auf ein Streich 1978, Brauer became one of the fathers of Austropop in its politically committed orientation. Since 2000 he has performed as Die Brauers with his daughters and Elias Meiri .

From 1986 to 1997 Arik Brauer was a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1991 he began with the artistic design of the Arik-Brauer-Haus, completed in 1994, in the 6th district of Mariahilf in Vienna. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Austrian Embassy in Berlin to design the Austrian Buddy Bear .

Arik Brauer (Vienna 2009)

The colorful surfaces, the detailed work and the integration of current political events in pictures with a dreamlike and fairy-tale atmosphere are characteristic of Brauer's artistic work, with influences from Pieter Bruegel the Elder and oriental miniature painting.

In 2018, Brauer's statements in a central broadcast on ORF on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the “Anschluss” of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich in 1938 sparked discussion. There he stated that as a Jew, the anti-Judaism of Muslim refugees worries him more than today the local neo-Nazis . When asked about it in subsequent interviews, he stated that he believed that "the majority of Arab Muslims hate the Jews" because they felt humiliated by the State of Israel. He doesn't take it personally, however, because “they were brought up that way and maybe I would see it that way if I were in their place.” In reference to the “ songbook affair ” about hymn books with anti-Semitic songs from a Wiener Neustadt fraternity meant he, it would “definitely not be one of those fencers singing such a song” who would kill him. When in the same year the Mauthausen Committee unloaded the FPÖ representatives of the Federal Government Kurz I on the occasion of the international liberation ceremony of the Mauthausen concentration camp , at which the Austrian government usually appears closed, and invoked a resolution from the 1960s, Brauer criticized this boycott and called it a "big mistake". He explained his stance by saying that “those representatives who are suspected of anti-Semitism would not come to Mauthausen. But those FPÖ politicians whose historical task it is to shape the FPÖ into a democratic party ”. At that time he saw the “first signs” of this upheaval.

family

Arik Brauer was the father of Timna Brauer , Ruth Brauer-Kvam and Talja. He died in January 2021 at the age of 92 in Vienna with his family. This reports on Brauer's last words as follows: “I was so happy with my wife, with my family, with my art and my Vienna Woods. But there is a time when you live and there are two ages when you don't exist. "

Awards

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

Visual arts

Arik Brewer's House
  • Bird trapping , 1962
  • Burnt earth tower , 1962/63
  • The Carmel Rainmaker , 1964
  • The persecution of the Jewish people , cycle, from 1973
  • Human Rights , 1975 (cycle of color etchings)
  • Stage designs and costumes for the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Paris Opera , 1975
  • My father in the winter of 1983
  • Open Sesame , 1989 (TV play with daughter Timna Brauer )
  • Arik-Brauer-Haus in Vienna 6, Gumpendorfer Straße 134/136, completed in 1993
  • Facade of the parish church Am Tabor in Vienna 2, 1996
  • Facade of the Zwi-Perez-Chajes-Schule in Vienna 2, Castellezgasse 35 (am Augarten)
  • Facade of the town hall in Voitsberg (Styria) 2002
  • Don't Shoot the Blue Flower , 2003
  • Peace Negotiation , 2003
  • Adam in the Wind of Fire , 2003
  • Summer night , 2003

Book publications (selection)

  • A Jud und keck a no , Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99050-148-1 .
  • The old testament. As told by Arik Brauer. With 60 drawings. Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99050-127-6 .
  • Franz Smola, Alexandra Matzner (eds.): Arik Brauer - Gesamt.Kunst.Werk (exhibition cat. Leopold Museum, Vienna November 14, 2014 - February 16, 2015), Vienna 2014.
  • Arik Brauer: The colors of my life. Memories . Amalthea, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85002-893-6 .
  • Arik Brauer: The colors of my life. Memories . Amalthea, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85002-562-4 .
  • Arik Brauer: The Devil and the Painter. Signed special edition. A satyricon (drawings). Amalthea, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85002-453-9 .
  • Arik Brauer: Arik Brauer (illustrated book). Brandstätter, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85447-810-0 .
  • Arik Brauer: Catalog raisonné . Harenberg Komm., Dortmund 1992, ISBN 3-88379-427-9 .
  • Arik Brauer: The knights of the Reuthenstopf (children's book). Betz, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-219-10366-9 .
  • Arik Brauer: The Passover Haggadah / "Seder haggada sel pesah" . Piper, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-492-02502-1 (German / Hebrew).
  • Martin Buber , Arik Brauer: XX Hasidic stories (exhibition catalog). Sydow Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-921520-04-5 .
  • Brewer. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1972. ("Austria's Most Beautiful Books 1972")

theatre

Seven in one blow , Singspiel. World premiere at the Wiener Festwochen 1978, directed by Samy Molcho

Discography

Arik Brauer - signature of the long-playing record Arik Brauer (1971)
  • 1960 Chants d'Israel by Neomi et Arik Bar-Or, disques BAM, Paris, LP
  • 1965 Brauer sings his painting. Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, single
  • 1968 brewer songs wallet , gallery Sydow, LP - under Erich Brauer published
  • 1971 Arik Brauer , Polydor in coproduction with ORF , LP
  • 1973 Everything that has wings flies , Polydor, LP
  • 1973 Petroleumlied / Das goldene Nixerl , Polydor, single
  • 1978 7 in one fell swoop , LP
  • 1984 Poetry with Claws , Joram Harel Management, LP - together with daughter Timna
  • 1985 Au - songs by Arik Brauer accompanied by Toni Stricker , Hanniphon, LP - zu Hainburg
  • 1987 Schattberlied / Schattbergsong , Amadeo, single
  • 1988 Die Erste , Polydor, CD re-release by Arik Brauer
  • 1988 Geburn for the Gruam? , Amadeo, LP, CD, MC
  • 1989 shades , CD
  • 1994 From house to house , Dino Music, CD - with Timna Brauer and Elias Meiri
  • 1998 Master Series , Polydor / PolyGram, CD
  • 1999 Die Brauers , "Adam & Eve" Studio, CD - Die Brauers
  • 2000 Motschkern Is Gsund , Timna Brauer, CD

literature

Web links

Commons : Arik Brauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Restless - On the death of Arik Brauer. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 25, 2021, accessed on January 26, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Petra Paterno in the Wiener Zeitung : Arik Brauer's last interview: "You have to clear parking spaces". Retrieved January 25, 2021 .
  3. ^ Norbert Feichtenschlager:  The November pogrom 1938 in Vienna. :  Zeitgeschichte , year 1994, p. 373 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ztg
  4. ↑ Kulturspiegel (...) Erich Brauer wrote for the European (...) In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , November 26, 1970, p. 9, bottom right.
  5. ↑ a b "Amadeus Awards": Arik Brauer is honored for his life's work. Die Presse , March 9, 2015, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Arik Brauer and Wolfgang Hutter received high honors from Vienna. APA , March 29, 2011, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ORF : In the center: Hysteria on Heldenplatz - How seductive are we today? (March 11, 2018)
  8. ↑ Brauer: "New anti-Semitism was imported with refugees" . In: Courier from April 3, 2018 (accessed on January 25, 2021).
  9. ↑ Helga Embacher, Bernadette Edtmaier, Alexandra Preitschopf: Anti-Semitism in Europe. Case studies of a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, pp. 219 f., 263 f.
  10. ^ Ida Metzger in the courier : Arik Brauer: "Big mistake, not to invite FPÖ ministers to Mauthausen". May 5, 2018, accessed January 25, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Arik Brauer is dead. In: orf.at. January 25, 2021, accessed January 25, 2021 .
  12. ↑ a b Arik Brauer celebrates his 90th birthday. ORF.at , January 3, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  13. ^ City hall correspondence of March 29, 2011
  14. ↑ orf.at: Great Golden Decoration for Arik Brauer . Article dated November 20, 2018, accessed November 21, 2018.
  15. ^ Fritz Csoklich Prize for Arik Brauer: Prize for the "voice of reason". July 8, 2019, accessed July 10, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Exhibitions in the district museums. :  Reports and communications from the Vienna Antiquities Association / communications from the Association for the History of the City of Vienna. Formerly the antiquity association of Vienna / Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna , born 1978, p. 472 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bav
  17. ↑ Exhibitions in branches. :  Monthly newspaper of the Altert (h) ums-Verein zu Wien / Monthly journal of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna (formerly Altertums-Verein zu Wien) / News Journal of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna (new edition of the "monthly newspaper") / Wiener Geschichtsblätter / Enclosure documentation and information , year 1978, p. XLVI (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / maw
  18. ↑ Artists paint contemporary history. :  The new reminder call. Journal for Law, Freedom and Democracy / The new warning call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , 1985, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm
  19. ↑ Cathedral Museum Vienna - Arik Brauer and the Bible ( Memento from June 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 1, 2009
  20. ↑ Michael Wurmitzer: The Wiener Mister Fantastisch: Look at Arik Brauer's 90s. Der Standard , April 5, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  21. ^ Dpa: Austrian Arik Brauer with exhibition in Erfurt. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 1, 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ Life's work on Samy Molcho's website
  23. ^ Walter Schurian: 1900 to 2010: Fantastic Art from Vienna , ISBN 9783938049174 , Hanno Karlhuber: Pages 137-138, 159
personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Arik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauer, Erich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist, set designer, singer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2021
Place of death Vienna