Carl Brasch (sculptor)

Carl August Brasch (born May 25, 1866 in Leipzig , † after 1935) was a German sculptor .

Life

Memorial plaque from Carl Brasch at the Groß Schoritz manor

He was the son of the portrait painter Friedrich August Brasch from Leipzig and his wife Auguste nee Wolf. After attending secondary school, Carl Brasch went to the Leipzig Art Academy, where he became a student of Melchior zur Straßen (1832-1896). Afterwards he also attended the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. He lived in Berlin from 1893, where he married in 1911 and probably also died.

Carl Brasch became known primarily through portraits and the production of small sculptures. Most of them were animals from which he made sculptures. He gained importance in 1913 through the portrait plaque for Ernst Moritz Arndt at the house where he was born in Groß Schoritz .

literature

• Brasch, Carl August . In: General Artist Lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. Volume 6: Second supplement with corrections, 1922, p. 37 ( digitized version ).
• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 183.
• Frauke Hinneburg: Brasch, Carl August . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , p. 661.