Franz Bronstert

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Franz Bronstert 1960

Franz Bronstert (born February 18, 1895 in Dorsten , † October 29, 1967 in Freudenberg (Baden) ) was an engineer and painter .

Life

Franz Bronstert was born in Dorsten as the son of the drawing and music teacher Bernhard Bronstert and his wife Luise (née Breil ). Before the First World War , Bronstert attended the mechanical engineering school in Hagen to take the engineering examination there. In the First World War he took part in the rank of lieutenant, later a captain , until his capture . The first artistic activity and the meeting with Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen took place in the prisoner of war camp in Ripon , Yorkshire . These contacts led to the founding of the artist group “ Der Fels ” in 1921 , which Reinhard Hilker and Carry Hauser also joined.

After the war he settled in Hagen and made close contacts with the circle around Karl Ernst Osthaus, in particular with Christian Rohlfs, from whom he received important artistic impulses. Around this time a friendship with Alfred Kubin developed . Membership in “Fels” resulted in a lively exhibition activity between 1921 and 1927 from Kiel to Vienna. During this time, a total of eight portfolios with original prints by the rock artists were published.

The participation in exhibitions of the Young Rhineland is also known . Participation in the group exhibition of the Hagenring in the Museum Osnabrück in 1929, possibly also other exhibitions of the Hagenring, is guaranteed.

Artistically, Bronstert developed from the radical expressionism of the early twenties through a realistic phase to "purified impressionism" as the artist himself says. Bronstert mostly finds his motifs in nature.

Although Bronstert also worked in oil , also mastered drawing and other techniques, his love belonged to watercolors .

After the resolution to become a freelance artist had ultimately failed due to a lack of financial success, earning a living came to the fore for a long time without giving up painting. Bronstert had meanwhile married Maria Regina Hedwig Schlickum, an extensive relative of the landscape painter Carl Schlickum and the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath . The marriage has four children. The possibility of being artistically active without financial constraint also relieved Bronstert of the need to take care of his marketing.

As a multi-talented technical and artistic person, Bronstert made a career in the profession he learned. He was the owner of several national and international patents and ended his professional life as a technical board member of the VARTA group. Then he immediately concentrated again on painting, which had always accompanied him before.

Because of his job, Bronstert often changed his place of residence. From the place of birth Dorsten, via Hagen, Posen , Bissendorf (Wedemark) , Frankfurt am Main , to the last double residence in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Rauenberg (city of Freudenberg).

Works by Bronstert are u. a. in the Schneider Collection , Museum Baden , Solingen ; as well as in the collections of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen; in the Museum Schloss Moyland , in the Von der Heydt Museum , Wuppertal , in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , Munich , in the art collection of the city of Soest , in the Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid , in the Stadtmuseum Iserlohn as well as in private ownership.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1921–1927 Various traveling exhibitions “Der Fels”, shown in numerous cities in Germany and Austria
  • 1922 1st International Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf
  • 1929 Osnabrück: Exhibition "Hagenring"
  • 1966 Galerie Lempertz Contempora , Cologne "Baukhage Bronstert Cordone Venema"
  • 1991 Museum of Modern Art , Passau "The Rock"
  • 2006 Amtshaus Galerie, Freudenberg "Franz Bronstert - An Artist of Classical Modernism"
  • 2008 Museums of the City of Lüdenscheid "Painters and Photographers View Nature" (smaller participation)

literature

  • Otto Breicha, Franz X. Hofer and Franz T. Czokor : Der Fels, artist community, 1921–1927, Wörlen Foundation, Passau 1991, ISBN 3-9802307-9-1 (museum catalog , area; No. 15)
  • Jessewitsch, Rolf and Schneider, Gerhard (eds.): Expressive objectivity, fates of figurative painting and graphics in the 20th century Works from the Gerhard Schneider collection, Kettler 2001, ISBN 3-935019-20-3 Fig. 427-429
  • Franz Joseph van der Grinten , Hans van der Grinten , Ron Manheim: Woodcuts of German Expressionism: from the holdings of the Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland - Collection van der Grinten - Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / ed. from the Friends of Museum Schloss Moyland eV [In cooperation with the Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation - Van der Grinten Collection - Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Friends of the Museum Schloss Moyland], 1996 ((inventory) catalog) Fig. p. 80 and p. 371

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More precisely in the village of Rauenberg; today it belongs to the city of Freudenberg
  2. ^ Sandra Labs: Johanna Ey and the avant-garde of the Düsseldorf art scene, Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2012, page 89

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personal data
SURNAME Bronstert, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1967
Place of death Freudenberg (Baden)