Bruno Goldschmitt

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Scratch-plaster painting by Bruno Goldschmitt in Munich-Neuhausen

Bruno Goldschmitt (born March 22, 1881 in Nuremberg , † April 4, 1964 in Munich ) was a German painter , fresco painter , graphic artist , wood cutter and lithographer .

Life

Bruno gold Schmitt received his artistic training at the School of Applied Arts Nuremberg and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1900 he founded an artists' colony on Lake Constance with Hermann Hesse , Ludwig Finckh , Robert Weise and others . Goldschmitt came to Berlingen in 1905 with his friend, Basel architect Hans Hindermann .

He painted the fresco cycle " King Laurin " in the Parkhotel Laurin in Bozen and frescoes in the police headquarters in Munich . A tapestry by Bruno Goldschmitt hangs in the Pasing town hall.

In 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP . Goldschmitt carried out the decoration of the Munich Künstlerhaus for the particularly festive "Olympic Carnival" in 1936.

In the study Die Tapisserie im National Socialism by Anja Prölß-Kammerer from 2000, Goldschmitt is described as a zealous party member. In a letter from 1935 to the board of the “Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft”, he wrote about Jews and communists that they were “an imported rotten sponge” that had to be removed from the art of “awakened Germany”.

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Individual evidence

  1. Manfred H. Grieb (ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Fine artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, p. 494
  2. Dorita Plange: The six deadly sins of the police , tz, February 26, 2010
  3. Jutta Czeguhn: Ideological Web Errors , SZ.de, September 22, 2015
  4. Münchner Illustrierte Presse of January 16, 1936
  5. Jutta Czeguhn: Where politicians meet under a Nazi tapestry , SZ.de, January 21, 2016