August Adolph Bruno Marquardt

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Bruno Marquardt, The Sulfur River at Simpsonhafen [Rabaul, New East Britain]. The picture was taken between February and April 1908

August Adolph Bruno Marquardt (born May 4, 1878 in Berlin ; † June 11, 1916 near Verdun ) was a German painter and pioneer of color photography .

Life

Bruno Marquardt grew up in a middle-class family. His parents were the caterer August FO Marquardt (1847–1898) and Emilie Sophie Louise Marquardt, née Weimar (1857 – before 1916). August Marquardt and his company Borges & Marquardt were among other things purveyor to the court of the Prussian royal family.

Bruno Marquardt, Cape Utuma [Samoa]. The picture was probably taken in June 1908

After graduating from school, Marquardt attended the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg as a guest student in chemistry in 1896/7 . After the death of his father in 1898 he began training as a painter at the Berlin Art Academy with the landscape painter Eugen Bracht . When he received a call to the Dresden Art Academy , Marquardt followed him to Dresden. He expanded his knowledge from 1903 to 1904 at the Königsberg Art Academy , where he studied with Ludwig Dettmann . He then settled in Berlin as a painter. Around 1905–1906 he was a visiting student at the Academie Julian in Paris. The Berlin Academy of the Arts awarded Marquardt the Michael Beer Foundation Prize in 1907 , which he shared with the painter and wood cutter Karl Alexander Brendel and the engraver Ludwig Schäfer.

Pacific trip

Bruno Marquardt, view of the Klarabucht with the Iltis mountains; Beach hotel and beach. [Quingdao] September / October 1908

The Internationale Weltverlag in Berlin hired Marquardt in 1907 alongside Robert Lohmeyer (1879–1959) and Eduard Kiewning (1847 – ca. 1912/15) to take color photographs in the German colonies according to Adolf Miethe's system . The photographers were equipped with Bermpohl machines for this purpose. The project received administrative support from the Reich Colonial Office. Marquardt reached Sydney in early 1908 and first traveled to German New Guinea ; then visited Samoa and drove from there via Sydney to the German possessions in the South Seas . In September 1908 he reached Kiautschou from Hong Kong . These are probably the first color photographs ever to have been taken in these regions. They were first published in 1909/1910 in the work "Die Deutsche Kolonien", which was produced after the bankruptcy of the International World Publishing House in 1908 by the "Verlagsanstalt für Farbenphotographie Weller & Hüttich" in Berlin, but later also in other publications. During the First World War, some of Marquardt's motifs were published in a series of postcards entitled “Colonial Warrior Donation”. After the war, new editions of "The German Colonies" were published between 1924 and 1926.

Further work

Colonial warrior donation. Pictures from the German colonies. No. 9: Boy from Neumecklenburg. Photo: Bruno Marquardt, February / April 1908

Marquardt was an accomplished color photographer who may have been involved in the color-photographically illustrated publication “The World in Colors”, which the International World Publishing House published as a portfolio from 1906 onwards. After 1908, however, he concentrated on painting. He exhibited his paintings since 1902 and was also praised for his landscapes. a. 1908 for his works, which were shown at the exhibition of the Munich Secession and in 1913 for his participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . From the spring of 1913 he was in Italy (Rome and Sicily) for a long time and, like the artists Paul Klee , August Macke and Louis Moilliet, planned a trip to North Africa in 1914 , which he probably did not take. In July 1914, Westermann's monthly magazine published a short report on Marquardt. After the outbreak of the First World War he was drafted as a Landsturmmann and died in the fighting for Verdun in June 1916.

family

Marquardt remained unmarried. He had a brother, Heinrich Paul Marquardt (1882-1903), who worked as a businessman in Berlin.

Publications with photographs by Bruno Marquardt

  • Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (Ed.): Color photographs from the German colonies. 48 color photographs from nature. Following the work of W. Scheel “Germany's Colonies”. Publishing company for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin [1912/13].
  • Hans-Ernst Pfeiffer (Ed.): "Our beautiful old colonies". With a foreword by Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. With 189 color photogr. Fig. After nature photograph. v. R. Lohmeyer, Br. Marquardt. Ed. Kiewning and Helmut Blenck as well as 20 monochrome. Text fig. u. Maps vd image area d. Reichskolonialbundes. CA Weller. Berlin 1941.
  • Willy Scheel: Germany's colonies in eighty color photographs. Publishing company for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1912 (3 editions)
  • Kurd Schwabe (Ed.): The German Colonies , 2 volumes. Publishing house for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1909/1910.
  • Kurd Schwabe, Paul Leutwein (Hrsg.): The German Colonies: Anniversary edition for the forty year return of the beginning of German colonial history. Complete neubearb., Publishing House for Color Photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1924/1925.
  • Kurd Schwabe, Paul Leutwein (ed.): The German colonies. Publishing house for color photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1925/6 (ND Cologne: Komet Verlag 2009).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marquardt, Bruno . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 132 .
  2. ^ Archives of the Academy of Arts, file 726.
  3. ↑ Johannes Emmer (Ed.): The world in colors. International world publisher, Berlin 1906–1908.
  4. ↑ Fritz v. Ostint: The spring exhibition of the Munich Secession. In: Art for All. 23 (1907-1908), p. 342.
  5. ↑ Oskar Anwand: Berlin Jubilee Art Exhibition, in: Modern Art. Illustrated magazine 27 (1912/13), p. 297f.
  6. ^ FD: Of art and artists. In: Westermannsmonthshefte . Volume 116/2, 1914, p. 779.
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquardt, August Adolph Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and pioneer of color photography
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1916
Place of death Verdun