Bruno Bruni (artist)

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Bruno Bruni Sr. (Born November 23, 1935 in Gradara near Pesaro / Italy ) is an Italian painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

With his figurative motifs, Bruno Bruni became known as a draftsman, lithographer , painter and sculptor in Germany as early as the 1970s. In 1977 he was awarded the International Senefelder Prize for Lithography .

Life

One of the studios

Bruni comes from a very simple background. His father was a supporter of the labor movement, and the fight against fascism at the end of World War II was one of the experiences that shaped Bruni's political orientation.

From 1953 to 1959 he attended the Instituto d'Arte in Pesaro. After exhibitions in Pesaro and Florence, Bruni went to London in 1959, where he began to be interested in Pop Art. After an exhibition of his work in the Whibley Gallery in London, he came to the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg in 1960 . Georg Gresko made it possible for him to study, which was certainly the decisive stage in his biography. Bruno Bruni said of his strict mentor and teacher in an interview in 1978: "Without Gresko, I would not be what I am today". Gresko helped Bruni to implement the tension between Italian artistic tradition on the one hand and surrealism and abstract expressionism on the other.

After Gresko's death (1962) he studied with Paul Wunderlich , who taught him the technique of polychrome lithography . Bruni left the college in 1965. In 1967 he was awarded the Lichtwark Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 1968 he became a founding member of the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg . Since then he has worked in Hamburg in the formerly converted Thedebad and in Urbino . For some time he has been living and working in Hanover, where his wife runs a gallery.

In 2008 he took part in the cookery documentary The Perfect Celebrity Dinner for the TV station VOX .

He is the father of actor Bruno Bruni Jr. .

literature

  • Bruno Bruni - emotions of my life. Retrospective 1961–2005 (paintings - sculptures - drawings - graphics, on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition Bruno Bruni - Emotions of My Life , Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Casino Society, September 11 - October 26, 2005), Ars Mundi, Hanover 2005, ISBN 3-9800254 -9-7
  • Bruno Bruni: culinary delights and enjoyment of art. My way of life . Hädecke, Weil der Stadt 2005, ISBN 3-7750-0460-2 .
  • Volker Huber: Bruno Bruni - color lithographs . Edition Volker Huber, Offenbach am Main 1989, ISBN 3-921785-44-8 .
  • Bruno Bruni - New Works 1977 to 1982 . Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8196-0 .
  • Hans Redeker: Bruno Bruni . The bibliophile paperbacks No. 271. Harenberg, Dortmund 1981, ISBN 3-921785-16-2 .
  • Bruno Bruni , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2006 of October 28, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Joachim Kronsbein: Art market: nymphs from the bathing establishment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1998, pp. 148-149 ( online ).
  • Frank Keil: agent of the decorative . In: taz , November 8, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Bruni "The Perfect Celebrity Dinner" from January 6th, 2008 Homepage VOX, January 2008
personal data
SURNAME Bruni, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruni, Bruno senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, printmaker and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Gradara , Pesaro, Italy