Bruno Adriani

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bruno Adriani (born August 18, 1881 in Werne , † January 7, 1971 in Carmel-by-the-Sea ) was a German-American lawyer, art historian and patron.

Life

After studying law, Adriani began the legal clerkship in Hanover in 1903, and in 1908 he became a court assessor there. From 1910 he worked as a lawyer in Potsdam. Adriani had since 1923 with the rank of Executive Council at police headquarters Berlin for the theater censorship in charge. In 1926 he became a member of the Prussian Higher Inspectorate for Trash and Dirty Writing , which was set up in accordance with the 1926 Act to Protect Young People from Trash and Dirty Writing , and was promoted to the Upper Government Council in 1928. In April 1930 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Culture as a ministerial advisor , but left there at his own request in November of that year. The press commented that Adriani did not need it financially and wanted to devote himself to his collection of books and paintings. Adriani was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Theater GmbH Berlin and had many connections in Berlin's cultural life, which suited his own broad interests.

Adriani was married to the American painter Sadie Adriani. At the end of 1930 they emigrated to Geneva, Switzerland , where they adopted their daughter Rosemarie Chamberlain as a child. At the end of 1936, the Adrianis moved to the USA, where they finally settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea in California in autumn 1941 . He became an American citizen on May 23, 1941. Adriani published essays on art history for the Berlin gallery owner Karl Nierendorf, who also emigrated to New York City . Adriani had been under the influence of the George circle since his youth and was friends with Robert Boehringer , for whom he wrote the essay on Baudelaire and George in Switzerland.

In the early 1960s, the Adriani couple donated their art collection to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco as the “Bruno & Sadie Adriani Collection” , including a still life by Vincent van Gogh and a Seine landscape by Claude Monet .

Tiger (marble relief), missing (1931)

Adriani had been friends with the sculptor Philipp Harth since the twenties , about whom he published a monograph in 1939, of which he had some pictorial works ( Adler (now located on the grounds of the Tor House of the poet Robinson Jeffers in Carmel), small sculptures, reliefs) and with whom he was in close correspondence until Harth's death in 1968. In his collection were u. a. the wooden relief of a herd of camels from 1927 and the marble relief of a tiger from 1931, both of which have been considered lost since 1971.

Fonts

  • About reading French lyric poetry , Ulm: Aegis-Verl., 1952
  • Pegot Waring , New York; NY: Nierendorf Ed., 1945
  • Problems of the sculptor , New York; NY: Nierendorf Gallery, 1943
    • Problems of the sculptor , Ulm: Aegis-Verl., 1948
  • Philipp Harth , Berlin: Ulrich Riemerschmidt Verlag , 1939
  • Baudelaire and George , Berlin: U. Riemerschmidt Verl., 1939
  • Portrait of an art critic , in: Das Kunstblatt, 1931, p. 323f

literature

  • Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Adriani, data according to SSN
  2. ↑ Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Volume 12 / II, p. 512
  3. ↑ Sadie Adriani, b. Adler (born August 23, 1889 in Atlanta, Ga .; † July 2, 1968 in Carmel-by-the-Sea)
  4. ^ Obituary Sadie Adriani in: Monterey Peninsula Herald, CA July 3, 1968
  5. ↑ Is it a real van Gogh? , SFC, January 6, 2005
  6. ↑ Sailboats on the Seine at Visitguide
personal data
SURNAME Adriani, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1971
Place of death Carmel-by-the-Sea