Arnt Bruyn

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Arnt Bruyn , also Bruin , (* around 1500 in Cologne ; † September 17, 1577 there ) was a German painter. He is known by other spelling variants of his name: Arnold Breun , Arnt Breun , Arnold Brun , Arnt Brun and Arnold Bruyn .

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Arnt Bruyn was the eldest son of the painter Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder. Ä. and father of Bartholomäus Bruyn, who also worked as a painter . Few facts are documented about his life. Presumably he was a student of his father, whom he supported in 1547 with the work on a series of pictures for the cloister of the Carmelite monastery in Cologne. As can be seen from a document from 1550, he was married at that time. He and his wife Gertrud had 5 children: Barthold, Figgen / Sophie, Tringen and Ursula. After his father's death in 1555, he inherited part of his house and workshop. For unknown reasons, in 1557 he passed his share of the inheritance to his younger brother Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder. J. from. The purchase of a house in Cologne is documented in 1563. In 1555 he was a member of the Agatius Brotherhood of St. Agatius. From 1564 until his death in 1577, Arnt Bruyn was a member of the Cologne City Council. In 1565, 1568, 1571, 1574 and 1577 he received the honorary office of senator.

1568 he was commissioned to by Stefan Lochner painted altar of the city patrons in the town hall chapel to clean Cologne. In 1570 he carried out cleaning work on an altar painted by Jan Joest van Kalkar in Werden . It was possibly a high retable painted in 1512 for the collegiate church there , which is now lost. Further works are neither documentary nor stylistically tangible, so that Arnt has not yet been able to clearly assign a single work. He died of the plague in Cologne on September 17, 1577.

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SURNAME Bruyn, Arnt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breun, Arnold; Breun, Arnt; Brun, Arnold; Brun, Arnt; Bruyn, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1577
Place of death Cologne