Hermann Brachert

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Hermann Brachert at work (portrait from the Georgenswalde Museum / Отрадное, 2010)

Hermann Brachert (born December 11, 1890 in Stuttgart , † June 2, 1972 in Schlaitdorf ) was a German sculptor who worked in natural stone , metal (especially bronze) and amber .

Life

Hermann Brachert was born as the son of the managing director Alfred Brachert and his wife (née Renz). From 1897 to 1905 he attended the eight-class Stuttgart Schlossrealschule and from 1905 took private design lessons with Paul Christaller . A four-year apprenticeship as a chaser and steel stamp cutters he graduated in 1912 from the trade test. He attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts from 1913 to 1916 and was a student of Robert Knorr . From 1917 to 1918 he worked as a freelance artist and studied architecture with Paul Bonatz at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

At the age of 29 he became a teacher at the Provincial Art and Trade School in Königsberg in 1919 and headed the department for stone and wood sculpture until 1926. In addition to the sculpting class, as a trained chaser he also led a class for goldsmithing. In 1924 he was awarded the Bronze Königsberg City Medal. In the period from 1926 to 1930 he was released from government contracts for the production of stone and bronze sculptures for the Albertus University in Königsberg ; from 1930 to 1933 he advised the State Amber Manufactory Königsberg and the State Art Foundry Gleiwitz on artistic issues. He made twenty large architectural sculptures by 1933. A large number of bronze medals and copper engravings were also made . In 1935, Brachert signed an employment contract with Preussag (Königsberg branch), the owner of the State Amber Manufactory in Königsberg at the time, to work as a freelance artist. Brachert carried out this activity until the beginning of 1944, when he was drafted into the Großkuhren coastal defense (Samland).

While working for the State Amber Manufactory Konigsberg were published his works and presented in various exhibitions: The Nazi exhibition " Great German Art Exhibition " in Munich in 1941, where two of his works were on display, a female half-length as well as a portrait of Colonel General Georg von Küchler , who was sentenced to several years imprisonment after 1945 for war crimes, continues to keep the portfolio of 20 sculptures from the Great German Art Exhibition in 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich , as well as at the World Exhibition in Chicago 1933/1934 . Thanks to his appointment to work on a Wagner monument for Leipzig, he and his family were able to leave East Prussia in the summer of 1944.

Even after the evacuation of East Prussia and his return to Stuttgart, he worked as a freelancer. His appointment as professor and head of a sculpture class at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart took place on March 15, 1946. In his function as chairman of a planning committee set up by the ministry with the other members Otto Baum , Willi Baumeister , Harmi Ruland, Hermann Sohn , Fritz Steisslinger and Rudolf Yelin the Elder J. , as acting director (1946–1947) and then as rector elected by the academy council (1947–1953), essential tasks fell to him in the reorganization of the academy, which was in ruins after the war. Until his retirement at the end of 1955, he took on the post of deputy rector - alongside Karl Rössing as rector.

Brachert then continued to teach at the Academy, provided artistic advice to the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke in Wasseralfingen and was made an honorary member of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1960. On April 15, 1961, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. He died on June 2, 1972 in Schlaitdorf.

Work in public space

Working in stone

  • House brand at the House of Technology in Königsberg as a half-relief (1925): Limestone
  • Lecturer , sculpture in front of the University of Königsberg (1928): 3.20 m, limestone (lost)
  • Chronos on three horses at the main train station in Königsberg (1929): Travertine approx. 2 m away after the war
  • Warrior Memorial in Pikallen in East Prussia on the north wall of the Pikallener Church made of Bavarian limestone, almost 3 meters high (1932–1934)
  • Water carrier , larger-than-life fountain figure in Rauschen (1940): marble (a copy of this sculpture was installed in the spa gardens of Rauschen in 2012),; the original is in the Brachert Museum in Georgenswalde
  • Fisherman with mermaid , relief in Rauschen: limestone (1.20 × 1.40 m)
  • Bust of Federal President Theodor Heuss in the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Bonn, larger than life (1949): Untersberg marble
  • Genius , sculpture, executed by Hermann Kress , Stuttgart Higher Regional Court , constitutional column, larger than life (1956): limestone
  • The oath , high relief, executed by Hermann Kress, Stuttgart Higher Regional Court , high-rise (1953): limestone
  • Relief on one of the marble columns of Robert Bosch AG , Stuttgart (1955): marble
  • Mourners , memorial for the fallen, Stuttgart- Untertürkheim , Alter Friedhof, height 3.20 m (1960): limestone
  • Tomb

  • Constitutional column with genius, Stuttgart Higher Regional Court, forecourt

  • High relief of the oath , Stuttgart Higher Regional Court, high-rise

  • Mourners as a memorial to the fallen, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, old cemetery

  • Nymph on the Swetlogorsk beach promenade (Rauschen / East Prussia)

  • Original sculpture Water Carrier in the Brachert Museum Georgenswalde / Otradnoje (2011)

Bronze work

  • Dancing girls , life-size (1927): removed by the National Socialists in 1933
  • President Paul von Hindenburg in the Königsberg Palace Museum, larger than life bust (1928)
  • President Friedrich Ebert , bust larger than life (1929): removed by the National Socialists in 1933
  • Otto Braun , Prime Minister of Prussia and also chairman of the state's SPD, bust (1929), Berlin State Library
  • Striding girl (1929): (1.90 m) away from the National Socialists in 1933
  • City School Board Prof. Dr. Paul Stettiner , roughly life-size (1930): removed by the National Socialists in 1933
  • Genius der Kunst (in honor of Lovis Corinth ), larger-than-life open bronze casting (1931), Königsberg: removed by the National Socialists in 1933
  • Mermaid dance , relief (1937): (50 cm)
  • Nymph , plastic larger than life (1938)
  • Prof. Dr. Reinhold Trautmann , life-size bust (1941)
  • Hölderlin , small portrait head in the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Bonn (1955): 17 cm
  • Profile of Friedrich Schiller with a group of characters from his dramas on the 150th anniversary of his death (1955), Hüttenwerke Wasseralfingen (W 11.8 × H 18 cm)
  • Remembrance of East Prussia, larger than life in front of the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg (1970)
  • Bronze bust (half relief) of the East Prussian poet, Frieda Jung, in her gravestone, 1932.

Amber work

Brachert Museum in Georgenswalde / Отрадное (summer 2011)

A selection from the seventy amber works attributed to Hermann Brachert so far:

  • The floating one (1938): 21 cm
  • Wind bridal box with silver drifting work (1940): 35 × 35 × 9 cm
  • Altar cross (1936): 61 cm
  • Chalice (1936): 23 cm
  • Portrait of his daughter Traut, who died in a bomb attack in 1943, on a piece of amber jewelry

Brachert Museum

In the former summer house of the Brachert family on Tokarew Str. 7 in Georgenswalde (today Otradnoje / Отрадное) has been the Hermann Brachert Museum since 1993, in which the artist's works are exhibited.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich . Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1941, cat.-no. 95, 96
  2. ↑ published by the House of German Art, Heinrich Hoffmann Verlag, Munich 1941.
  3. ^ R. Zech: Hermann Brachert. In: Kunst der Nation , 3rd year 1935, No. 2
  4. ↑ L. Tomczyk: The amber designer Hermann Brachert. In: Bernstein in the work of Hermann Brachert. Kaliningrad 2015.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988. (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. A self-portrayal. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988.) n. Pag. (10).
  6. ↑ Stuttgarter Illustrierte, Vol. 12, No. 11, March 17, 1935, p. 262 (incl. Illustration).
  7. ↑ ostpreussen.net: Images of the water carrier (copy 2012) and the nymph (1938) in the townscape of Rauschen (accessed on May 10, 2016)
  8. ↑ #Brachert 1990 , pp. 16, 52; # Henssler 1979 , pp. 74-75, 77; #Lupfer 1997 . - Henssler gives 1957 as the year of origin. - Location: 48.776786 °  N , 9.185843 °  O .
  9. ↑ # Henssler 1979 , pages 64, 77; #Stuttgarter Zeitung 1953 . - Henssler incorrectly states 1954 as the year of origin. - Location: 48.776757 °  N , 9.185978 °  O .
  10. ↑ See also: Online project Fallen Memorials [1] . - Location: 48.781874 °  N , 9.253943 °  O .
  11. ↑ s. Brachert, Hermann in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 292)
  12. ↑ V. Restschikowa: The Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum . In: Bernstein in the work of Hermann Brachert. Kaliningrad 2015.

literature

  • Hermann Brachert: The sculptor Hermann Brachert , Stuttgart undated (1951).
  • Memorial exhibition of Prof. Hermann Brachert. Sculptures, amber work, drawings. April 8 - May 31, 1974, Stuttgart, Wilhelmspalais / Organizer: Freundeskreis Prof. Brachert and the Stuttgart City Archives , Stuttgart 1974.
  • The sculptor Prof. Hermann Brachert 1890–1972. Exhibition for the 100th birthday. Sculptures, amber work, drawings. June 10 - July 1, 1990, 29th East German Culture Week Ravensburg , Ravensburg 1990.
  • Ortwin Henssler: 100 years of the court system. Higher Regional Courts Karlsruhe and Stuttgart 1879-1979 , Villingen-Schwenningen 1979, pp. 64, 74-75, 77.
  • Gilbert Lupfer: Architecture of the fifties in Stuttgart , Tübingen 1997, p. 242.
  • (gie): ceremony in the tower of justice. The Stuttgart Justice Tower inaugurated. Two new senates at the Higher Regional Court . In: “Stuttgarter Zeitung” of May 28, 1953, p. 12.
  • Author collective (Ed .: Kaliningrader Bernsteinmuseum ): Bernstein im Schaffen Hermann Brachert. Kaliningrad 2015. ISBN 978-5-903920-34-1 . ( online version ) Contains a catalog raisonné of the amber works that are secured and attributed to Brachert.

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personal data
SURNAME Brachert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1972
Place of death Schlaitdorf