Bruno Marquardt

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Bruno Marquardt (born November 2, 1904 in Insterburg ; † May 2, 1981 in Positano ) was a German painter in Positano.

Life

Bruno Marquardt was born in East Prussia . After studying at the Königsberg Art Academy and the Berlin Academy of the Arts , he left Germany and lived in Paris and Spain. In the Balearic Islands , Marquardt became an enthusiastic underwater fisherman and found his love for the sea. In 1936 he received an order to create illustrations for a book with Italian motifs and came to Positano, where he settled permanently.

In the 1930s, Positano offered countless refugees and emigrants , including many artists and intellectuals, refuge in order to survive the years of National Socialism . So did Bruno Marquardt, who became part of the group of artists who decided to stay for a longer or shorter period of time. Bruno Marquardt, with his Baltic origins, could not return to his homeland (now part of Kaliningrad Oblast ) due to political convictions and he became a point of reference for all foreigners in Positano , especially in the last years of the 1940s and early 1950s.

In Positano he met Emilia, known as Pupa. Emilia, from the tribe of the Tuttavilla di Calabritto family , came from Naples and had left the city during the Second World War after the bombing and occupation by Wehrmacht troops.

His studio was in Via Fornillo, where he painted his boats, houses and human figures. Among other things, Bruno and his wife Pupa Marquardt were close friends with their neighbors the painters Kurt Craemer and Karli Sohn-Rethel , as well as the writers Stefan Andres and Armin T. Wegner .

In the “Buca di Bacco”, the oldest hotel on the square, there is an illustrated book with black and white photos from this period. They show the German painters Bruno Marquardt, Kurt Craemer and Martin Wolff , the Bauhaus member Eduard Gillhausen (1921–1922) and the writer Stefan Andres.

He took part in several Venice biennials , competitions and exhibitions, had exhibited in Berlin, Königsberg in Prussia, London, New York, Naples and Rome. After his death in May 1981, he was buried in the Positano cemetery in his adopted country of Italy .

literature

  • Matilde Romito: La Pittura di Positano nel '900 . Pandemos, Paestum 2011, ISBN 978-88-87744-43-9 , p. 260 (Bruno Marquardt, a Prussian gentleman in Positano).
  • Klaus Voigt: Refuge on Revocation. Exile in Italy 1933–1945. Volume 1, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-91487-0 , p.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo Bruno Marquardt as a diver ( memento of the original dated August 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Image in: “La Citta di Salerno”, February 22, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lacittadisalerno.gelocal.it
  2. ↑ Cinecittà Luce SpA documented a relationship with the deep sea in 1946 with the film Positano. Colors in freedom , with Bruno Marquardt while diving and painting in water.
  3. ↑ Bruno Marquardt and his wife Pupa , in Matilde Romito: La Pittura di Positano del '900 , Pandemos, Paestum 2011, ISBN 978-88-87744-43-9 , p. 15.
  4. ^ Rudolf Hagelstange: in A German Painter in Exile , To the death of the Positanese Kurt Craemer , Zeit, Bruno Marquardt, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Schede Biografische (short biographies) , Italian, accessed on October 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquart, Bruno (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1981
Place of death Positano