Arthur Braunschweig

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Arthur Braunschweig (born April 8, 1888 in Piasken , East Prussia ; died between 1954 and 1957) was a German painter , graphic artist and specialist writer . He was particularly active in Munich . His works include landscapes and genre paintings .

Live and act

Braunschweig first studied at the art school in Breslau , switched to the academy in Leipzig and enrolled on October 28, 1909 under the matriculation number 3794 for the subject of drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He gave Thorn as his place of birth . Angelo Jank was the teacher of the drawing school at the time .

From 1914 to 1918 he was used as a soldier in the First World War. He exhibited his works in the New Secession since 1920 and stayed in the United States of America from 1923 to 1925 . He was a member of the "German Society for the Promotion of Rational Painting Processes". In 1932 he received a grant from the Albrecht Dürer House Foundation .

Works (selection)

  • 6 etchings for the comedy Graf Ehrenfried by Christian Reuter (1911)

His painting Morning Sun was shown at the exhibition of the Munich Secession in the Glaspalast in Munich in 1920 .

  • The bullfight or bullfighter (1925)
  • The Rhine landscape with a plowing farmer, barge and castle complex and the walker with dog on a cliff with a view of a wide coastal landscape (1938)
  • An evening in Upper Bavaria (1940)
  • Tomorrow and Africa threatening (1954)

He also took part in the Düsseldorf-Munich Art exhibition from May 14th to August 31st, 1932 at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf as a participating artist of the Munich Artistic Association .

literature

  • Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: General Artist Lexicon . tape 6 : 2nd addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Johann Karl: From Munich artist studios . tape 5 . Self-published, Munich 1929, OCLC 73124528 .
  • Braunschweig, Arthur . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 303-304 .
  • Susanna Partsch : Braunschweig, Arthur . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 20.

Web links

  • Pictures by Arthur Braunschweig in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (The pictures may not be displayed for copyright reasons, only picture details)
  • Arthur Braunschweig artnet.com (here partly with images of some works)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the digital register of the Akademie der Künste .
  2. ↑ Christine Berberich: Braunschweig, Arthur. In: The Richard Wurm Company and the "Wurm'sche Tempera" - an annotated archival collection. Chair for Restoration, Art Technology and Conservation Science at the Technical University of Munich ( ar.tum.de PDF p. 451).
  3. ↑ The Dürer Foundation . In: Adolph Donath (Ed.): Der Kunstwanderer. Magazine for old and new art, for the art market and collecting . April issue, 1932, p. 231–232 , here p. 232, top left column ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  4. ^ Christian Reuter, Arthur Braunschweig, Georg Witkowski, Friedrich Zarncke, Maximilian Plaut: Graf Ehrenfried: a comedy in three acts . Leipzig Bibliophile Evening, Leipzig 1911, OCLC 970877850 .
  5. ↑ Die Kunst: Monthly magazine for free and applied arts . tape 41 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1920, p. 414 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Düsseldorf - Munich art exhibition. eifel-und-kunst.de, accessed on September 30, 2019 (Section: Participating Artists of the Munich Association of Visual Artists »Secession«).
personal data
SURNAME Braunschweig, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Piasken , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH between 1954 and 1957