Bruno Héroux

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Bruno Héroux, around 1908
Bruno Héroux: Menu for the Leonid Festival 1930

Louis Carl Bruno Héroux (born December 20, 1868 in Leipzig ; † February 14, 1944 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist , type and ex-libris artist .

Life

On his father's side, Bruno Héroux came from a Huguenot family. He was born in Leipzig as the son of the engraver Louis Héroux and his wife Minna, née Zimmermann. He received his artistic training from 1886 to 1892 at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he devoted himself in particular to studying xylography . With the invention of the grid cliché , his original wish to work as a wood engraver became futile. After a temporary job in the commercial sector, he initially earned his living as an illustrator for fashion magazines and humorous magazines.

From 1900 he worked as a freelance graphic artist and was represented with three works at the International Art Exhibition in Dresden the following year . In particular, his erased nude libris and the use of the special graphic form of remarquing prints contributed to his popularity and reputation. As early as 1903 he was appointed to teach at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. In 1908 he was given the title of professor . From 1900 to 1910 he regularly exhibited his paintings and prints in the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris .

In 1910, he summarized his first 200 graphic works in a catalog raisonné. The self- published directory was published in a one-time edition of 500 copies, 100 of which were given an etching and the artist's signature as a special edition . The successful draftsman, who was valued and supported by contemporaries like Max Klinger , was extremely productive. For example, over a period of eight years he produced 600 illustrations for the three-volume hand atlas of human anatomy by the physician Werner Spalteholz (1861–1940), published in Leipzig in 1913 , which are regarded as masterpieces of anatomical and drawing. For the Atlas of the Anatomy of the Horse , which appeared in 1901, he had also created the illustrations within two years. In addition, he published several portfolios with drawings that he had made on his travels through Italy and Russia . In 1913 he was the responsible artistic director of the art volume Das Völkerschlachtdenkmal ( consecration inscription 1813-1913) , which contained, among other things, the portraits of the Leipzig mayors Otto Georgi , Rudolf Dittrich and Carl Bruno Tröndlin .

Bruno Héroux was for many years chairman of the Leipzig local association of the General German Art Cooperative and an honorary member of the Leipzig artists' association . He was also a member of the Leoniden Artists' Association in Leipzig, founded by Edwin Bormann , Georg Bötticher and Arthur von Oettingen , for which he produced numerous graphic works.

Shortly after the majority of his printing plates had been destroyed by the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, the artist died of a serious internal ailment. His ashes were quietly buried.

Bruno Héroux, whose half-sister Aurelie Geyer had been running the household since his mother's death, was married to Melitta Winkler, a rhythmic gymnastics teacher trained at the Mary Wigman School , from the early twenties . His apartment and studio were initially at Johannisallee 11, and from 1913 he lived on the 4th floor of the Art Nouveau house at Scharnhorststraße 2 in Leipzig, which was built according to plans by Georg Wünschmann and artistically designed by Héroux . He also owned the water mill in Machern , which he liked to use as a summer country house.

obituary

“ On February 14th, Prof. Bruno Héroux, the well-known Leipzig graphic artist, who was only able to celebrate his 75th birthday on December 20th of last year, died in a Leipzig hospital, where he was looking for a cure from a serious inner illness. Closely associated with the Reichsmesse city since his birth, Bruno Héroux has also developed his pen art here on site and thus significantly promoted Leipzig's fame as one of the focal points of graphic work. Its main role is as an eraser. His technically finely crafted records, on which he partly pondered the deepest secrets of life, partly also gave intoxicating expression of his joy in existence, are unforgettable. Like Max Klinger, he has often summarized such etchings cyclically. He was just able to complete a dance of death sequence before his death. With Bruno Héroux, on whose collective exhibition in Chemnitz we were able to report only recently, the Leipzig State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry has also lost one of its best experts. He worked as a teacher at this institute for 36 years. H.'s last days of life were darkened by the pain that a large part of his records had been destroyed in the terror attack on Leipzig. "

- L. Sch .: Prof. Bruno Héroux has died. In: New Leipzig daily newspaper. No. 47, February 17, 1944, p. 3.

Honors

  • 1906 Mention honorable , Paris
  • 1910 Austrian State Medal in Silver for Art and Science, Salzburg
  • 1931 Honorary membership of the German Exlibris Association
  • Honorary member of the Leipzig Artists' Association
  • Albrechts Order , Knight's Cross 1st Class

Memberships

  • Society of Bibliophiles Leipzig
  • General German Art Cooperative
  • Leipzig Artists Association
  • Association of German Illustrators
  • German Book Trade Association
  • German bookplate association
  • Leonids

Works (selection)

  • Bookplate for the fur trader Richard Gloeck (1910)

  • Signed overlay above the entrance to the residential and studio building at Scharnhorststrasse 2

  • Bruno Héroux's studio with the facade decorations he designed

  • Decoration of the facade of the house at Chopinstraße 11a

Publications

  • Reinhold Schmaltz: Atlas of the anatomy of the horse. with drawings by Bruno Héroux et al., Schoetz, Berlin 1901ff.
  • Ernst Kießling (author), Bruno Héroux (Ill.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Leipzig Artists' Association. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1908.
  • Ernst Kroker , Julius Klinkhardt, Bruno Héroux (book decoration and orig. Lithograph), Carl Weidemeyer (designer): Leipzig. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1908.
  • Picturesque impressions of a trip from Leipzig to Northern Italy. 36 sketches by a German stone draftsman. Klinckhardt, Leipzig 1910.
  • List of graphic works from 1900 to 1910, including sheets 1 to 200. Leipzig 1910.
  • Picturesque impressions of a trip through Russia. 42 stone drawings from nature. Leipzig 1911.
  • Alfred Spitzner (arrangement), Bruno Héroux (Ill.): Germany's monument to the Battle of Nations. The memorial of his liberation and national rebirth: 1813, 1913. Dedication of the German Patriot Association. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1913.
  • Germany's Freedom Cathedral: Memorial sheet for the consecration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. In: Leipziger Latest News and Handels-Zeitung v. October 18, 1913, Edgar Herfurth, Leipzig 1913.
  • Werner Spalteholz, Wilhelm His (staff), Bruno Héroux (Ill.): Hand atlas of human anatomy. Hirzel, Leipzig 1913.
  • Egbert Delpy, Bruno Héroux (Ill.): Commemorative sheet for Bismarck's 100th birthday. Special supplement. of the Leipzig Latest News, April 1, 1915, Herfurth, Leipzig 1915.
  • with Richard Braungart, Arthur Liebsch: 101 ex-libris. Completed April 1, 1917. Brandstetter, Leipzig 1917.
  • with Egbert Delpy: Bruno Héroux. His graphic work up to op.501.Bong , Berlin 1922.
  • From the dances by Melitta Héroux. Brandstetter, Leipzig undated
  • Sway from the Nile. BD Fellah. Dedicated to the Leonids for the annual festival. Leipzig 1927.
  • Ups and downs. Dedicated to the participants of the Leonidenfest 1930. Leipzig 1930.
  • Tasty items in artificial clothing and contemplative items from my garden. Printed for the Leonids for the annual festival in 1933. Leipzig 1933.
  • All kinds of contemplative things from the garden, forest and field. Printed for the Leonidenfest in Leipzig in 1935. Leipzig 1935.
  • The human being. Anatomy for artists. Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
  • Chronicle of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and commemorative publication of the Leipzig local group 1860-1935, now the Leipzig artists' cooperative. Leipzig 1935.
  • Chronicle of the General German Art Cooperative and Festschrift of the Leipzig Local Group 1860-1935, now Leipzig Artists Cooperative, final chapter ed. on the occasion of its dissolution in May 1939. Leipzig 1939.
  • A dance of death. 12 engravings and sayings 1939–1943. Self-print, Leipzig 1943.

literature

  • Ludwig Weber: Leipzig ex-libris by Bruno Héroux. In: New sheets from Leipzig sites for art and trade. Vol. 2, H. 1, 1906.
  • Bruno Héroux and his work. Special issue of the "Beauty", printed for the Leonidenfest 1926. In: Die Schönheit. XXII. Vol., Verlag Die Schönheit, Dresden 1926.
  • Richard Braungart: Bruno Héroux in memory. In: Bookplate art and commercial graphics. Journal of the German Ex-Libris Society. Frankfurt am Main 1952, pp. 74f.
  • Axel's father: Bruno Héroux as an ex-libris artist. In: Deutsche Exlibris-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): DEG-Jahrbuch 2003. Exlibriskunst und Graphik. Frankfurt am Main 2003.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Héroux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Ludwig Degener: Who is it? Degener, Berlin 1911
  2. ^ Official catalog of the International Art Exhibition Dresden 1901, Arnold, Dresden 1901, p. 79, No. 1165–1167.
  3. ↑ After a busy life devoted to art, my beloved husband, the painter and graphic artist Prof. Bruno Héroux, teacher at the state academy, was relieved of his grave suffering on February 14th. In silent mourning Melitta Héroux on behalf of all the bereaved. Leipzig, S3, Scharnhorststraße 2. The cremation took place quietly at the request of the deceased, please refrain from condolences. Text of the obituary notice, In: Neue Leipziger Tageszeitung. No. 49, February 19, 1944, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Bruno Héroux: Handwritten communication to Mr Schulz-Euler from May 1, 1910, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig: Stadt- und Landesgeschichte, autographs, correspondences, A / 1516/2010.
  5. ↑ Melitta Héroux, daughter of master saddler Carl Oskar Winkler and his wife Anna Maria, née Werner, devoted herself to expressive dance, her dance studio for training in ballet and artistic dance until she was ready for the stage existed after the Second World War. Compare: Leipzig address book 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Héroux, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Héroux, Louis Carl Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, type and bookplate artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1944
Place of death Leipzig