Ernst Bräuning

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Ernst Bräuning (born February 12, 1921 in Hünfeld ; † September 18, 1983 ibid) was a German painter and businessman from Hünfeld. The spectrum of the artistic work is much larger than the name “Rhön painter” would suggest.

Ernst Bräuning - Melting Snow at Allmus (1977)
Painting is not titled, but is typical of his style: mother with child (and huge hands)
Self-portrait by Ernst Bräuning (1982)

Life

Ernst Bräuning was born in 1921 as one of seven children of Anna and Josef Bräuning. At the age of ten he was already seriously engaged in painting . He studied five winter semesters with the academic painter Hugo Pfister (Fulda). The early break occurred with the outbreak of the Second World War . Ernst Bräuning, who himself survived the war seriously wounded, lost his three older brothers.

Artistic decisions in terms of continuity were not possible for a young painter in Germany after 1945. For Ernst Bräuning, this meant continuing his father's painting business in Hünfeld instead of studying art. Ernst Bräuning, who was married to the daughter of the church painter Hermann Wirth, had three children. When he first went public with his pictures in his home at the end of the sixties, he had long since developed into an independent painting style. Ernst Bräuning's pictures show "realistic, expressive and abstract stylistic features". His main subjects are landscapes of the Rhön and Christian motifs. He uses the mother and child theme particularly often. Ernst Bräuning died of leukemia in 1983. Since 1995 there has been a permanent exhibition by Ernst Bräuning in the Konrad Zuse Museum with the town and district history in Hünfeld . Ernst-Bräuning-Strasse was inaugurated in Hünfeld on July 24, 2005. The notice under the sign reads: “Ernst Bräuning, most important Huenfeld painter of the 20th century”.

Exhibitions

  • 1968: Heil Gallery, Fulda
  • 1970: Solo exhibition at Galerie Dahms Wiesbaden, exhibition in the Hünstelder Kreis Sparkasse
  • 1971: Participation in the show "150 Years of the District of Hünfeld" Exhibition in the Hanau City Hospital Annual exhibition of East Hessian artists in Fulda
  • 1972: Participation in the exhibition “Art in the Rhön”, Schloss Holzberghof. Participation in the collective exhibition in Würzburg. Participation in the annual exhibition of East Hessian artists in Fulda
  • 1973: Art in the Rhön in Fulda
  • 1974: Annual exhibition of artists from Huenfeld, annual exhibition of artists from East Hesse in Fulda
  • 1975: Exhibition in Cornberg / Bebra Jürgen Kunst in the Rhön Holzberghof
  • 1976: Participation in the exhibition "The Rhön in Art" annual exhibition of Huenfeld artists Christmas exhibition of the Young Art Circle Hünfeld
  • 1977: Solo exhibition in the Apollon Gallery in Frei Laubersheim
  • 1978: The Bad Salzschlirf art station shows a large retrospective with 200 pictures
  • 1980: Exhibition on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Junge Kunstkreis Hünfeld
  • 1981: Annual exhibition of East Hessian artists in Fulda
  • 1984: Memorial exhibition in honor of the late artist
  • 1992: Exhibition in the Huenfeld town hall
  • 1996: Participation in the exhibition “The Rhön in Painting” at Kleinsassen Art Station
  • 1997: Solo exhibition Ernst Bräuning painting and graphics. Large retrospective with over 300 works

literature

  • Encounters with Ernst Bräuning , Joachim S. Hohmann, Rhön Verlag, 1997 ISBN 3-931796-42-6 .

Works in public space

  • Painting of the chapel of the Nüst cemetery
  • Ernst Bräuning department in the Konrad Zuse Museum
  • Some paintings in the town hall, town hall and other public institutions.
  • Facade design, Töpferstrasse 24 Hünfeld

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim S. Hohmann (Ed.): Encounters with Ernst Bräuning . Rhön Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-931796-42-6 , p. 72 .
  2. ↑ 'Two lives mastered with flying colors - city honored artist Ernst BRÄUNING' . Website Osthessen News. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bräuning, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1983
Place of death Hünfeld