Erwin Broner

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Erwin Broner , actually Erwin Heilbronner , also Erwin Joseph Broner (born November 16, 1898 in Munich ; died October 15, 1971 ? In Kreuth in Upper Bavaria ), was a German-American architect and painter .

family

Erwin Broner came from the Munich-based Heilbronner family. Around 1900 they ran the bank AM & J. Heilbronner on Maximiliansplatz , whose co-owner was his father Hugo Heilbronner (1869–1929). His mother, Sophie, born Wimpfheimer, came from Ichenhausen . Erwin Broner grew up with two brothers in Schwabing's Kaiserstraße.

Live and act

Broner attended Maximiliansgymnasium in the school year 1908/09 , but then resigned. Information about his further education is not available. From 1916 to 1918 he did military service. He studied painting with "Hoffmann" in Munich - possibly Hans Hofmann - and around 1919/20 with Christian Landenberger and Robert Poetzelberger at the Stuttgart Art Academy and architecture with Paul Schmitthenner at the Technical University of Stuttgart . From 1920 he was also a student of Karl Albiker and Oskar Kokoschka in Dresden.

In 1920 he married the lawyer daughter Anna Wittner in Mannheim. Around 1928 he founded a small artists' colony on a property he had acquired in Hanweiler near Winnenden . After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Heilbronner was considered politically unreliable and was under observation. In 1933, he sat down with his Stuttgart painter friend Manfred Henninger into Switzerland from. In 1934 they both went to Barcelona and shortly afterwards to Ibiza .

Heilbronner emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles in 1938 . There he worked as an architect and cameraman. In 1944 he acquired American citizenship and changed his family name to "Broner".

From 1952 he lived in Ibiza again, but continued to take part in film and architecture projects in the USA. In 1959 he finally settled in Ibiza Town . With the German artists Erwin Bechtold , Hans Laabs , Katja Meirowsky , Egon Neubauer and Heinz Trökes , the American Bob Munford (1925–1991), Antonio Ruiz and Bertil Sjöberg , he co-founded the group of artists Grupo Ibiza 59 , which dissolved in 1964.

In 1960 he and his second wife Gisela, née Karp (1912–2005), who came from São Paulo , moved into the Casa Broner he designed in the Sa Penya district . The house, built in a symbiosis of local building tradition with influences from Bauhaus architecture, was handed over to the city of Ibiza by Gisela Broner in the form of a foundation; it is now an exhibition building.

Broner died at the age of 73 in Kreuth in Upper Bavaria.

Works

Casa Broner in Ibiza Town

As a painter, Broner remained influenced by the abstract expressionism of his teacher Hofmann throughout his life. As an architect, he was guided by the ideas developed at the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s . He designed numerous houses on Ibiza and the neighboring island of Formentera , including Establiment de Banys (Talamanca, 1934/35), Casa Strauss, Apartament Laabs , Casa Kaufmann, Casa van Praag (1961), Casa Schillinger and Cases Schillinger II, Casa Dvorkovitz (1962 ), Casa Bonga (1963), Casa La Falaise (1964; remodeled since), Casa Sinz (1964), Casa Couturier (1965), Casa Pániker (1966), Casa Louyet-Mazy (1966), Apartament Ruhnau, Finca Sinz, Casa Pooch (1968), Casa Vedova (1969), Apartamentos Sandic, Casa Schmela (1969), Casa Tur Costa (1970), Casa Dodane (1970), Casa Weber and Casa Siguan (1970) and Casa de Vries (1963) and Casa Marcet (1968) in Formentera.

literature

  • Registration records (PMB): Heilbronner, Erwin (created: April 4, 1916; last entry: September 29, 1920; with signature and print of the right index finger) Munich City Archives
  • Broner, Erwin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X .
  • Office for Art Berlin-West (Ed.): Grupo ibiza 59, Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, March 18 to April 16, 1961. Catalog. Preface: Erwin Broner
  • Henninger, Manfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Erwin Broner : Exhibition June 25 to July 8, 1955, Galleria Numero, Firenze. Catalog. Florence 1955
  • Erwin Broner. Necrològica. In: Cuadernos de arquitectura y urbanismo publicación del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Catalunya y Baleares - Barcelona. ISSN  0211-321X , Núm. 83 (July - August 1971), p. 82.
  • Erwin Broner. 1898-1971 , Col.legi Oficial D'Arquitectes De Les Illes Balears, 2005 (with photos, plans and texts in Catalan, Spanish and English)
  • Ha muerto Erwin Broner. In: Destino política de unidad Barcelona. ISSN  0011-9563 , Núm. 1780 (November 1971), p. 55.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 521-525 (Fig.).
  • Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Erwin Broner and the folk architecture of Ibiza . In: Deutsches Architektenblatt . ISSN 0949-6122, H. 2, 1998, pp. 150-151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Erwin Broner. 1898-1971, Palma de Mallorca, COAB, 1994, p. 184 engl.
  2. 1. In: private website. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  3. Sabine Beate Reustle: Winnenden - yesterday and today. Migration - Integration - Home. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-506-4 , pp. 95, 108, 112.
  4. Burcu Dogramaci, Kerstin Pinther: Design Dispersed: Forms of Migration and Flight . transcript Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8394-4705-5 ( google.de [accessed December 20, 2019]).
  5. Casa Broner Foundation
  6. ^ A corresponding request to the community could not confirm Erwin Brroner's stay and death in Kreuth. The year of death is unclear, see note 1