Bartholomäus Bruyn III.

Bartholomäus Bruyn (* around 1550/60 probably in Cologne ; † after 1603; also Bartholomäus Braun and Bartholomäus Brun ) was a German painter.

Bartholomäus Bruyn was a son of the painter Arnt Bruyn and grandson of the painter Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder. Ä. He was probably trained by his father. Little is known about the rest of his life. Possibly he is identical to the Barthélemy le Brun documented in Lorraine , so that it can be assumed that he worked there in the early 1580s. He must have been in Freiburg im Breisgau by 1590 at the latest , where he is mentioned in the minutes of the council that same year. In 1593 he is listed there as a portraitist (Bartholomeus Braun von Cöln Contrafeter) in the city's guild book. There he painted, among other things, the facade of the Basler Hof . In 1594/95 he painted a crucifixion of Christ on behalf of the Basel canon and apostolic protonotary , Johannes Setrich , which is now in the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg i. Br. Is located. In addition, he worked as a valued portrait painter. As such, he was promoted by the Fürstenberg Princely House . In 1603 he is mentioned as court painter to Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate in Heidelberg.

As various documents from the time show, Bartholomew must have been an extremely violent person who liked to get involved in fights. Of his artistic work, only the crucifixion , which is now kept in the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg, can be proven beyond doubt .

literature

• Horst Johannes Tümmers, Bruyn, Bartholomäus (1550) , in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 14, 1996, p. 616