Bruno Beye

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Bruno Wilhelm Heinrich Beye (born April 4, 1895 in Magdeburg ; † June 4, 1976 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

As the son of the plumber Wilhelm Christian Friedrich Ludwig Beye and his wife Emilie Marie Auguste Minna born. Born in Berkling, Beye studied from 1911 to 1914 at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . Study trips took him to Basel , Prague and Amsterdam .

Although Beye took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 , he was also active as an artist during this time. In 1916 he took part in the first expressionist exhibition in his hometown Magdeburg. In the left-wing newspaper Die Aktion he published various works from 1917 onwards. After the war, belonged Beye 1919 the founders of the artist group The ball and worked here with Franz January Bartels , Robert Seitz , Max Dungert , Wilhelm Stolz Castle , Theodor Däubler , Kurt Pinthus , Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt , Henry Schaefer , Johannes R. Becher and Erich Weinert together .

In 1921 Beye left Magdeburg and went to Berlin . He worked there at the cabaret " Schall und Rauch ". He was close friends with Eberhard Viegener .

Beye left Berlin as early as 1922 and worked in the Rhineland and Westphalia , where he also worked as an unskilled worker. From 1925 to 1928 he lived in Paris and attended the Académie Colarossi . Professionally, he worked primarily as a press illustrator . In 1929 he returned to Magdeburg and worked there as a press illustrator for left-wing newspapers until 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, a house search was carried out near Beye . He then went on extensive journeys that took him between 1934 and 1944 to Spain , Morocco , Italy and the Balkans , but also to Mecklenburg and Tyrol . In 1944 he was commissioned by the German government to draw the town of Quedlinburg .

Large parts of his work were destroyed in an air raid on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945. Beye returned to Magdeburg and worked with Hermann Bruse and Wilhelm Höpfner on denazification in the field of art. He was one of the founding members of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany .

In the course of the formalism dispute, Beye withdrew to Berlin between 1950 and 1953 and was again active as a press illustrator.

In 1954 he returned to Magdeburg again. In 1963 he was awarded the Erich Weinert Art Prize of the City of Magdeburg. In 1975 he was awarded the Magdeburg District Art Prize .

The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor ( Bruno-Beye-Ring ).

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum (including: Cafehouse entertainment in Paris; drawing with ink, brush and pen on paper; 1926)
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (Flaming Roofs; Paintings; 1919)

Literature / source

  • Lothar Lang: Encounters in the studio. Henschelverlag, Berlin, 1975, pp. 172-176
  • Heinz Kruschel : Bruno Beye or: Must utility and beauty be the eternal enemies? Magdeburg 1981
  • Jörg-Heiko Bruns: Beye, Bruno. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
  • Heinz Kruschel: BB, the eye person. Thoughts on the painter Bruno Beye, Oschersleben 2002. ISBN 3-935358-42-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Records 1874–1903 [database on-line], Registry Office Magdeburg Neustadt, Register Number 527/1895
  2. ↑ a b picture index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Beye, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beye, Bruno Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1976
Place of death Magdeburg