Bruno Krauskopf

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Bruno Krauskopf (born March 9, 1892 in Marienburg (West Prussia) , † December 23, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

education

At the age of fourteen, Bruno Krauskopf began his training as a chromolithograph in Berlin, which lasted until 1908. From 1910 to 1915 he studied at the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin with Emil Doepler . In 1912 he had his first solo exhibition at the Casper gallery in Berlin. From 1914 he formed a studio community with Wilhelm Kohlhoff and Harry Deierling and exhibited his works at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . Between 1913 and 1916 his graphic oeuvre was created from lithographs, woodcuts and linocuts.

Berlin time

From 1914 to 1916 he was a soldier in Alsace and Russia . Krauskopf became a member of the Free (Berlin) Secession in 1916 and was a member of the Berlin Secession from 1917 to 1933 . There he was also on the board and jury member and took part in the exhibitions. During this time numerous illustrations were created in books by Tolstoy , Dostoyevsky , Eulenberg and Reisiger . From 1918 he was also a member of the November group . In the early 1920s, his style of painting changed from Expressionism to Impressionism . The colors become fresher and brighter. Between 1923 and 1933 Krauskopf undertook several study trips to France, Poland, Italy and Switzerland. In addition to his pictures, Krauskopf illustrated various books, designed film decorations for the UFA and costume and stage designs for film and theater.

In exile

In 1933 his works were defamed as " Degenerate Art " by the National Socialist government , whereupon he emigrated to Norway in the same year . Boxer Max Schmeling bought his summer house in Bad Saarow , which he had built in 1923 according to plans by the architect Harry Rosenthal .

In the course of the Nazis' “Degenerate Art” confiscation campaign, ten works of art by Bruno Krauskopf were confiscated from public buildings: one watercolor, five prints and four paintings. The location of the watercolor and three of the paintings are unknown, two of the prints are now in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the other three and one of the paintings are listed as "destroyed" in the Nazi inventory.

Krauskopf settled in Stavanger . After 1940, when Norway was occupied by Germany, he lived underground. On May 12, 1945, the Norwegian police charged him with espionage for Germany, imprisoned him for ten weeks and confiscated all of his property. After he was declared an undesirable foreigner in 1948 and all his possessions fell to the Norwegian state, he emigrated to New York with his second wife . With the support of George Grosz, he made first contacts with the New York art scene. In 1957 he temporarily returned to Berlin, in 1959 he closed his New York studio and lived in West Berlin, where he died on December 23, 1960.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • Between 1919 and 1933 exhibitions in the Kestner Society , Hanover; Academy of Arts , Berlin; International Building Exhibition, Berlin
  • 1932 Exhibition in the Hartberg Gallery, Berlin
  • 1933 Exhibition in the Flechtheim Gallery, Berlin
  • 1934 Exhibition at the Kunstverein Stavanger
  • 1935 Exhibition at the Blomquist Gallery, Oslo
  • 1936 to 1940 exhibitions in Stavanger, Oslo, Bergen , Haugesund and Kristiansand
  • 1948 to 1954 various exhibitions in the USA and Germany: Galerie Weyhe, New York; Feigl Gallery, New York; Withney Museum, New York; Carnegie International Exhibition Center, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh ; Richmond and Art Center Des Moines, Iowa ; City Museum Mönchengladbach ; Hella Nebelung Gallery, Düsseldorf .
  • 1957 exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Bremen , in the Kunstamt Berlin-Wilmersdorf and in the Kunstverein Karlsruhe .

Posthumous exhibitions

  • 1972 Memorial exhibition in the town hall of Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1981 Exhibition in the Michael Haas Gallery, Berlin
  • 1985 Exhibition Kunstforening Stavanger
  • 1991 Exhibition at the Norbert Blaeser Gallery
  • 1992 traveling exhibitions in Norway on the occasion of his 100th birthday, exhibition in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt under the motto: I still live and continue to paint , and in the gallery Abercron, Munich.
  • 1999 Exhibition of Four Artists of the Lost Generation at Galerie Blaeser
  • In 2002 a painter from West Prussia worked in the West Prussian State Museum in Münster
  • 2005 Galerie Norbert Blaeser with works from Krauskopf's estate

literature

  • Bruno Krauskopf (1892–1960) “I still paint and live on”, by Margareta Friesen, publisher: Facsimilia Art & Ed. ISBN 978-3980182492
  • Bruno Krauskopf (1892–1960) Marienburg-Berlin-Stavanger-New York. Stations of a painter from West Prussia , by Jutta Fethke, publisher Westpreußisches Landesmuseum, Münster, ISBN 978-3927111462

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Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Krauskopf, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienburg (West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1960
Place of death Berlin
  1. ^ Free University of Berlin: Confiscation inventory "Degenerate Art". Retrieved February 6, 2020 .