Bruno Bernitz

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Bruno Bernitz (born August 18, 1915 in Berlin ; † September 20, 1987 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

Bernitz was born in Berlin-Baumschulenweg . His father was a postal inspector, his mother a pianist. In 1934 he studied at the higher graphic technical school in Berlin . This was followed by painting courses at the Art Academy in Charlottenburg with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Emil Nolde . From 1936 to 1941 he did a traineeship in the studio of the graphic designer and advertising specialist Otto Arpke , Johann Boehlau and M. Kellerer in Berlin. Bernitz completed his military service from 1942 to 1945. In 1942 he married Elli Paul, who gave birth to their son Hildur-Mathias Bernitz the following year. From May to December 1945 he was a prisoner of war ; there Benitz worked as a co-initiator of the camp theater and a member of the anti-fake committee Free Germany .

After returning from captivity, he moved to Berlin-Baumschulenweg in 1946 as a freelance painter and graphic artist. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a drawing teacher and took a distance learning course at the University of Education in Leipzig . From 1949 to 1951 he suffered from severe tuberculosis . In 1953, Bernitz co-founded the Association of Visual Artists Germany (VBKD) in Berlin, painting section. From 1953 he was a teacher at the special school for artistic folk creation and head of the courses from 1956 to 1969. From 1953 to 1969 he was a member of the Berlin district management of the VBKD. Since 1968 he has been a lecturer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art and responsible for the artist exchange with Czechoslovakia.

Bruno Bernitz processed the horrors of the Second World War in his pictures and developed his own, optimistic variant of the abstract, but also figurative representation of his works. Reflections on nature through to day-to-day political events and the development of post-war Europe shaped his motifs. Gable designs and church paintings, but also the interior design of embassies of the GDR abroad were part of his subject. Bruno Bernitz was in artistic friendship with Harald Metzkes , Otto Niemeyer-Holstein , Ronald Paris , Ursula Wendorff-Weidt , Walter Opitz , Arno Mohr and Max Lingner .

In 1975 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Exhibitions

  • 1946 General Treptower Art Exhibition, member of the jury
  • 1947 Young generation, works by the next generation in the Galerie der Kunstrunde e. V. Munich
  • 1948 Being and walking, three Treptower artists exhibit in Friedenau (Bruno Bernitz, Gottfried Saurbier , Max Weidenbach)
  • 1948 Exhibition - Young Generation
  • 1949 Exhibition of visual artists in the Berlin-Treptow district
  • 1949 Man and Work, Berlin
  • 1951 Berlin under construction, Munich
  • 1951 Artists create for peace, Berlin
  • 1952 Berlin artist in Zittau, Bautzen, Görlitz
  • 1953 Third German art exhibition in Dresden
  • 1955 Spring exhibition at the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1955 Spring exhibition of Berlin artists in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
  • 1956 Exhibition - German Landscape, State Gallery Moritzburg
  • 1957 Personal exhibition in the Berlin Visual Artists' Cooperative
  • 1957 Exhibition of the VBKD / Berlin, painting, graphics, sculpture, member of the jury
  • 1958 district exhibition of Berlin artists
  • 1958 Fourth German Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1959 Personal exhibition in the visual artists' cooperative, Berlin
  • 1959 Connected to our new life, 10 years of fine arts in the GDR
  • 1960 exhibition - Berlin artist 1960
  • 1961 exhibition - GDR artists travel to socialist countries
  • 1961 Art exhibition of the 3rd Workers' Festival , Magdeburg
  • 1961 Exhibition - New Life, New Art
  • 1962 6th district exhibition of Berlin art
  • 1962 Fifth German Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1962 Personal exhibition in Bratislava, painting and graphics from Czechoslovakia
  • 1963 Exhibition - Art Prize of the FDGB
  • 1964 Exhibition - Our Contemporary / National Gallery Berlin
  • 1965 Personal exhibition / gallery in the tower, Berlin
  • 1965 exhibition - Berlin today, in Moscow
  • 1967 Sixth German Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1969 district exhibition for the 20th anniversary of the GDR, Berlin
  • 1972 Personal exhibition in the Kreiskulturhaus Berlin-Treptow
  • 1972 Art exhibition in Prague, 14 GDR artists exhibit
  • 1972 art exhibition in the capital of the GDR
  • 1973 Seventh German Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1975 personal exhibition in the gallery in the tower; Berlin
  • 1980 Personal exhibition in the "Studio Fine Arts", 65th birthday of the artist, Frankfurt
  • 1982 Personal exhibition in Torgelow
  • 1983 Personal exhibition in Zossen
  • 1992 Memorial exhibition on the 5th anniversary of his death in the Museum Berlin-Treptow
  • 2011 Galerie Bachmann, Bruno Bernitz, Berlin
  • 2012 Galerie Kiekemal, Bruno Bernitz, Berlin
  • 2014 Rathaus Berlin-Marzahn , 20th century art
  • 2015 commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday, in Putbus / Rügen in the orangery , organizer: Kulturstiftung Rügen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Bernitz in the picture atlas Art in the GDR , accessed on March 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Ullrich Kuhirt: Art in the GDR, from 1945 to 1959. Seemann, Leipzig 1982, ISBN 3363001053 , p. 154.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 1, 1975, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Bernitz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1987
Place of death Berlin