Moist brush
The Feuchte Brush (FP) was a sociable association of painters , art historians , sculptors and writers as well as art lovers, which was founded in Braunschweig in 1881 and existed until the 1920s.
history
The founding members included Johannes Leitzen and Constantin Uhde . The motto of the wet brush was: "Always hairy, tight and moist.". Wilhelm Raabe joined the club in 1883 and soon became its center. Many members of the artists' club were also members of the association Der Ehrlichen Kleiderseller zu Braunschweig , founded in 1859 and still in existence today , whose members were occasionally invited to the Feuchten Brush meeting.
The purpose of the artists' association was primarily the social get-together. They mainly met in the "Altdeutsche Weinstube" near Sievers auf der Höhe, as well as at foundation festivals , where the association's singer, August Hermann , performed songs he had composed himself, the texts and notes of which are now in the Braunschweig city archive .
The club existed until the 1920s.
Members (selection)
- Gustav Bohnsack , architect
- Carl Bourdet , painter and watercolorist
- Otto Elster , writer
- Franz Fuhse , director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
- Wilhelm Grotrian , piano manufacturer
- August Hermann, teacher and writer
- Hans Herse , painter (founding member)
- Johannes Leitzen, Director of the Braunschweig Municipal Trade School (founding member)
- Wilhelm Raabe, writer
- Constantin Uhde, university professor at the Collegium Carolinum (founding member)
- Ludwig Winter , City Planning Officer
literature
- Kurt Hoffmeister in: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 71 .
- Kurt Hoffmeister: From the Green Hunter to the Great Way House. The clothing sellers before, with and after Wilhelm Raabe in almost 150 years. Chronicle of the clothing seller. Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 978-3-839-12896-1 .
- W. Schlegel: The “Moist Brush” by Wilhelm Raabe. In: Wilhelm Raabe Calendar 1948. pp. 138–154.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kurt Hoffmeister in: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. P. 71.
- ↑ City Library Braunschweig , Municipal Museum Braunschweig (ed.): Raabe and Brunswick, 1870-1910: Testimonies and works of the writer and illustrator held by the City of Brunswick. Braunschweig 1998, p. 112.
- ^ Society of Friends of Wilhelm Raabe (ed.): Communications for the Society of Friends of Wilhelm Raabe. Volumes 13–15, Heckners Verlag, 1923, p. 7.