Ernst Brunner (photographer)
Ernst Brunner (born December 5, 1901 in Mettmenstetten , † June 1, 1979 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss photographer .
Life
Brunner completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's business in Mettmenstetten. From 1918 he went on a journey. From 1923 to 1925 he attended the carpenter's college in Nuremberg and the interior design class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts . In 1929 he left the carpentry trade and moved to Lucerne . In 1936 he worked on an inventory of historical monuments as part of a public employment program for the unemployed. He used his autodidactic skills as a photographer, which he had acquired in the 1920s. From 1936 he received his first orders as a photographer for Regina Verlag in Zurich. Until 1960 he made publications in Swiss homes and Swiss families . In 1954 he was the initiator and head of the “Association of Lucerne Farmhouse Research” and has been its photographer ever since. He was also a co-founder of the Swiss Agricultural Museum Burgrain in Alberswil .
Ernst Brunner documented with great objectivity, because he wanted to capture the rural and rural world as precisely as possible. He photographed longer sequences of images in order to document work processes as precisely as possible, and attached great importance to the inclusion of the historical, geographical and social environment when, for example, he photographed manual activities.
Exhibitions
- Photography in Switzerland - Today. Gewerbemuseum, Basel 1949, group exhibition
- The Family of Man . Museum of Modern Art , New York 1955, group exhibition
- Sideways glances. Switzerland 1848 to 1998. Forum of Swiss History, Schwyz 1998, group exhibition
Publications
- 100 pictures of a charcoal kiln in Entlebuch. Lucerne 1940
- The farmhouses in the canton of Lucerne. Swiss Society for Folklore, Basel, 1977
Secondary literature
- Folklore of Switzerland. Rentsch Verlag, Erlenbach 1946
- Graubünden (national heritage of Switzerland). Basel 1946
- Photography in Switzerland - Today. Trade Museum, Basel 1949
- Photo 49.Special issue by Publicité et Arts Graphiques, Geneva 1949
- Where mountains rise. Zurich 1955
- Ernst Brunner. Photographs 1937-1962. Offizin Verlag, Zurich 1995
- Sideways glances. Switzerland 1848 to 1998. Offizin Verlag, Zurich 1998
- Photography in the Emmental. Idyll and reality. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 2000
Web links
- Brunner, Ernst. In: Sikart
- Gregor Egloff: Brunner, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Ernst Brunner (1901–1979) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Ernst Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Examples of pictures by Ernst Brunner
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunner, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer and farmhouse researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mettmenstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1979 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |