Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose

Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose (born June 18, 1887 in Liegnitz , Silesia, as Frieda Brose; † February 12, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German painter, member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Life

Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose was the third of four children of the cloth manufacturer Gustav Brose and his wife, the pastor's daughter Martha, née. Lubisch born in Liegnitz (Silesia). After attending the secondary school for girls in Liegnitz, she devoted herself entirely to her talent for painting and took portrait lessons with the painter and graphic artist Theodor Blätterbauer in Liegnitz. After the family moved to Gößnitz - the father's company had gone bankrupt , she continued her studies at Blätterbauer in Altenburg . A few years later, in 1911, the family settled in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .

In Berlin Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose attended the II. Crafts School and studied there with the Franco-German painter and draftsman George Mosson - a founding member of the Berlin Secession . When the father died after a serious illness in 1912 at the age of 58, the family faced considerable financial difficulties - reason for 25-year-old Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose to help support the family. This became all the more urgent when the youngest brother died in 1919 at the age of 26 from the Spanish flu . On Silesian manors, she gave the daughters of the house painting lessons, poorly paid, or completed the ancestral galleries with portraits .

In 1920 she met the architect Friedrich Brinkmann and married him a year later. Their son was born in 1923. When the husband went into business for himself as an architect in 1924, she mainly worked for him and with him, but also took on work in the vicinity of his buildings. In 1929, for example, a large Luther picture was created for the Luther hall of the parish hall of the Protestant parish in Berlin-Friedrichshagen, which was built according to Brinkmann's designs. In Friedrichshagen, the couple maintained contacts with numerous artists, such as a. to the painter and illustrator Fidus (Hugo Höppener) and the landscape painter Paul Mishel .

After the death of her husband in 1945, Elfriede Brinkmann-Brose returned to painting. Numerous works were created, mainly portraits. But also the landscape around the Müggelsee , flowers and nature were her constant inspiration. When she joined the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in 1952 , she also received some commissions from the Berlin magistrate , so u. a. for a portrait of the actress Margarete Kupfer .

She cultivated friendship with the family of the poet Johannes Bobrowski , especially with his mother. She maintained intensive contacts with the painter and writer Charlotte E. Pauly , who is also based in Friedrichshagen , with the painter, etcher and graphic artist Wilhelm Lategahn and his wife, and with the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger .

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• Archive of the Academy of Arts , Berlin
• Niederbarnimer Zeitung, Groß-Berliner Ost-Zeitung, daily newspaper for Friedrichshagen v. June 20, 1929
• Juliane Freytag: The Friedrichshagen architect Friedrich Brinkmann - practical and beautiful to a harmonious whole. (Friedrichshagener Hefte, No. 67), Antiquariat Brandel, Berlin 2018