Erich Brüggemann

Luna column in the Lüneburg Glockenhof from 1977

Erich Brüggemann (born June 24, 1928 in Winsen (Luhe) ; † September 28, 2019 there ) was a German artist.

Life

Erich Brüggemann was born in Winsen an der Luhe in 1928 . His parents were farm workers . When he was five years old, he had to remain isolated in the hospital because of his scarlet fever disease. Since no one was allowed to visit him, his mother sent him a drawing pad and colored pencils. It was there that his artistic talent was first discovered and promoted from then on. Erich Brüggemann took on his first commissioned work at the age of twelve. In 1942 he began an apprenticeship as a sculptor with the wood sculptor Karl Schlumbohm in Winsen , after his mother had shown him some of the boy's drawings. Shortly before the end of the war, the then 16-year-old was sent to the front and wounded in an attack.

After the Second World War he studied art in Wetzlar from 1948 to 1949 . Between 1952 and 1954 he trained as a restorer at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and studied drawing and modeling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . During this time Brüggemann took on the first restoration orders. Shortly afterwards he returned to his north German homeland, where he bought a farmhouse on Stöckter Deich in Winsen in 1961 and converted it into a workshop. At first he mainly worked as a restorer for church inventory, until the 1980s he also created his own works for newly built churches. He also took on orders for town halls and Hamburg museums. Since 1985 Brüggemann has been involved in the production of exquisite furniture, including chairs, tables and cupboards, and with artistic inlay work in the tradition of the Winsen Elbmarsch . He was an instructor at the Academy of Crafts. At the 1965 World Exhibition in Munich, Erich Brüggemann represented the German carpentry trade.

Awards

• 1983: Hessian State Prize for German Crafts
• 1985: Bavarian State Prize
• 1990: Prize of the Justus Brinckmann Society , Museum for Art and Commerce , Hamburg

Works (selection)

• Altar cross in the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian , Bockhorn (1968)
• Altar wall of the Erlöserkirche in Papenburg
• St. Johannis (Uelzen) in Uelzen : Wall relief on the altar wall with motifs from the Revelation of John and design of the colored glass windows
• Organ of the parish church St. Lamberti in Munster . Case and the carving of the new organ in 1988/1989.
• Altar cross of the Marienhafe church before 1965,
• Reredos 1977 Warnfried Church in Osteel ,
• Altar cross St. Mark's Church in Leteln ,
• Altar cross Erlöserkirche Krankenhagen ,
• Oak hanging cross of the church of the Thomas parish in Bremen-Kattenesch ,
• Evangelist Johannes , linden wood statue from 1953, St. Mary's Church (Winsen)
• Luna column , bronze sculpture from 1977 in the Glockenhof in Lüneburg
• In 2012, Brüggemann designed the furnishings and the ceiling painting for the “Library of Rural Knowledge”, the specialist agricultural history library of the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg .

Publications

• Art and technology of marquetry. Callwey, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-7667-0881-6 .
• New furniture. Designs for carpenters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1991.
• Furniture. Catalog. Publication by the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg,
• The carpenter's book. Callwey, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7667-1024-9 .
• The great carpenter's book. Practice and furniture science. Orbis, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-572-01165-5 .
• The back of the upright walk. Notes on art. Athena, Oberhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-89896-695-5 .
• Inlay work in wood. Homemade marquetry. Ideas, techniques, examples. Callwey Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7667-1066-6 .

Exhibitions (selection)

• "Erich Brüggemann, Möbel" (exhibition catalog, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg, 1992)
  • “20th Century Arts and Crafts”, Gallery Handwerk, Munich, April 28–5. June 1992
  • Handwerksform Hannover, August 1st – 5th September 1992
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, October 2–29. November 1992
• Bossard Art Center - "Furniture as a work of art" (2003)

literature

• Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. 3. Edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023537-5 .
• District of Harburg: District calendar 2014 - yearbook for the district of Harburg. Erich Brüggemann - carpenter in Winsen. P. 93 ff.

Web links

Commons : Erich Brüggemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Brüggemann enters the Golden Book of the city of Winsen
2. ↑ Kreiszeitung Elbe-Geest-Wochenblatt of August 25, 2018 "Winsen's gifted son", page 6
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Carsten Weede: All-rounder with heart and humor. (PDF; 9.6 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Schöne Leben. 2016, pp. 9-13 , archived from the original on April 29, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rüdiger Joppien : Erich Brüggemann: Furniture . Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg , 1992, p. 46 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Adolf Brockmann: Kunststätte Bossard - furniture as a work of art. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 15, 2003. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Wolfgang Runge: The St. Cosmas and Damian Church in Bockhorn. Oldenburg 1983