August Bresgen

August Bresgen (born July 9, 1888 in Holsterhausen , † February 27, 1987 in Gauting ) was a painter and sculptor from the Rhineland who mainly made portraits, landscape paintings and copies.

family

Married in 1914 with the pianist and painter Maria Podhorsky from Prague. Two children: the composer Cesar Bresgen (1913–1988) and their daughter Lucie (* 1915). Second marriage to Heilke Böhle. Two children Christine (* 1940) and Manfred (* 1941)

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Numerous trips abroad and long stays abroad shaped his studies in Italy, Belgium, Holland and France. 1907–1908 At the invitation of a Russian prince, the only 20-year-old traveled to St. Petersburg for portraits and copies . 1910–1914 first permanent residence in Florence , portraits of Pope Pius X , Benedict XV, bust of Cardinal Rampolla, numerous landscapes and essential copies in the Uffizi. 1915–1934 Main residence in Munich with repeated longer stays abroad in Sicily, Switzerland , Czechoslovakia , Spain , Tunisia , America, various exhibitions in Munich. The first sculptures were made in the 1920s. 1945–1960 First commissions from Americans, later from nobility and industrialists, work for the Frauenkirche in Munich, some sculptures, repeated conflict between copying and his own creative work. At the age of 75 he made 30 copies of Old Masters for the Museum of Art Chicago, a. a. Dürer's apostle. His works are u. a. in museums in Munich, Augsburg, Magdeburg, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Chicago, as well as in collections and foundations of the church, high nobility and industry. Bresgen was friends with Hans Purrmann .

literature

• Bruckmann Lexicon of Munich Painters in the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Vol. 5, pp. 111-113.

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