Edmund Brüning

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Brüning, illustration to Heine's " Book of Songs "

Edmund Brüning (born December 21, 1865 in Rapen , Recklinghausen district ) was a German illustrator and painter .

Life

Brüning studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1883 to 1891 . There were Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein and especially Peter Janssen the Elder his teachers. They trained him to be a history painter. In his later professional life, which he spent in Berlin , he was a portrait and genre painter . He also illustrated literary works from the classical period and the 19th century, including Goethe's Faust I , Adelbert von Chamisso , Karl Gutzkow , Heinrich Heine , Theodor Körner , and Friedrich Rückertand Grillparzer's masterpieces.

literature

  • Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914 . Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Wrede, Hans von Januszkiewicz: Das Geistige Berlin. Life and work of architects, sculptors, stage artists, journalists, painters, musicians, writers, draftsmen . Berlin / GDR 1975, p. 51
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapen, Recklinghausen district
DATE OF DEATH 20th century