August von Briesen

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August von Briesen (born August 16, 1935 in Budapest ; † August / September 2003 in Paris ) was a painter of German-Hungarian origin, lithographer , draftsman and illustrator who lived in Paris.

Life dates

At the end of the Second World War, Briesen was deported to Siberia for three years because of his German origins - the father was German, the mother Hungarian. After his return he studied at the Art Academy in Budapest from 1952 . In 1956, after the Soviet Army put down the Hungarian uprising , he left Hungary and first went to England, where he made his drawings for Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas and the Diabelli Variations . After traveling in Holland, Germany and Italy, he finally settled in France in 1972.

He participated with his works in numerous exhibitions and worked as a book illustrator. The focus of his work is the painterly examination of works of music.

Briesen died in his Paris attic apartment during the summer 2003 heat wave. Only after the authorities published a list of names of 57 heat victims whose death had not been noticed by anyone did the fate of the lonely artist Briesen become known. In September 2003, the Paris city council decided to purchase a work by Briesen in honor of the heat victims and to exhibit it in the lobby of the Musée National d'Art Moderne . Briesen was buried together with the other lonely heat victims in the Paris cemetery of Thiais, where the city of Paris maintains graves for the destitute and homeless.

Exhibitions and works (selection)

  • 1981 Musée de l'Athénée, Geneva
  • 1985 Participation in the exhibition On the Sound of Pictures, Music in 20th Century Art , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1987 Commissioned by the French state for a series of drawings for the Marseillaise on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the revolution
  • 1991 Galerie Karsten Greve , exhibition of drawings at the Foire internationale d'art contemporain
  • 1992 Commissioned by the Parisian Fondation Brandenburg-Neumark for a series of illustrations of Beethoven's Ode to Joy
  • 1996 Pierre Brullé Gallery, Paris

Publications

  • Laurent Michel (Ed.): Briesen. L'offrande musicale. 93 compositions en 951 dessins . Musée de l'Athénée, Geneva / Collection Brandenburg-Neumark, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-903646-06-6 .

literature

  • Michel Henry : Dessiner la musique. Théorie pour l'art de Briesen . In: Le nouveau commence 61 (1985), pp. 49-106.
  • François Laruelle : Réflexions philosophiques sur l'oeuvre d'August v. Briesen . Brandenburg-Neumark Foundation , Paris 1984, ISBN 2-903646-26-0 .
  • Laurent Michel: Briesen: artist, théorie, oeuvres . Cabinet des dessins de la Collection Brandenburg-Neumark, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-903646-08-2 .
  • Agnès Minazzoli: Catalog de l'exposition Briesen . Pierre Brullé Gallery, Paris 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compte rendu sommaire officiel de la Ville de Paris, No. 3 (October 3, 2003) : Reports of the Conseil de Paris from 22-23. September 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Briesen, August of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian painter, lithographer, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 2003 or September 2003
Place of death Paris