Franz Josef Brakl

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Franz Josef Brakl

Franz Josef Brakl , also Franz-Josef Brakl (born June 22, 1854 in Tyrnau , Hungary , † March 18, 1935 in Munich ) was an Austrian opera and operetta singer (tenor), theater director and gallery owner.

Life

Franz Josef Brakl came from an extremely poor background. When he was five years old he came to Vienna . There he attended the commercial academy before he graduated from the "Niklas Theater Academy". He made his debut in Vienna (1869), followed by engagements in Villach, Baden, Brno and Budapest, where he also sang operatic roles. From the Berlin Woltersdorff Theater he came to the Komische Oper in Vienna as a lyric tenor in 1876. There he was discovered by the artistic director of the Munich Royal Theater on Gärtnerplatz , Karl von Perfall , and immediately engaged: “A singer has never found a new footing faster. Because Brakl took the hearts of Munich by storm and, as a representative of the cheerful muse, enjoyed a favor that many opera greats might envy him for. Only his brother Adolf , who appeared here as a guest, often in the same roles, since 1881, was allowed to compete with him ... In February 1883, in the first Munich performance of the beggar student , the brothers shared the roles of students Jan and Simon and together with Eduard Brummers Ollendorf formed a quartet with an ideal cast ”(Bayerisches Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz 1965, p. 102).

A special event at the time was the world premiere of the operetta Die Fornarina by Carl Zeller on October 18, 1879. Franz Josef Brakl sang the main role of the painter Rafael Sanzio. He also worked with Amalie Schönchen , Agnes Lang-Ratthey and Max Hofpauer, among others .

On June 1, 1898 Franz Brakl took over the management of the Gärtnerplatztheater, but he made a year later after a few days earlier than Lancelot - a Bufforolle - in the operetta The Doll (La Poupée) , of Edmond Audran from its Audience had passed.

He was also the administrative director of the Schlierseer Bauerntheater for many years and wrote the opera libretto for Edelweiss in 1892 .

His brothers Adolf Brakl and CM Brakl were theater actors and singers, his sister-in-law was the Hungarian opera singer Elvira Schweida .

Art House Brakl

Exhibition poster Franz Marc, 1910

In 1905 the artist withdrew from active theater life. Franz Josef Brakl, a passionate collector of paintings since his youth, founded the "Kunsthaus Brakl", which quickly enjoyed a good reputation far beyond the city limits. For example, the art lover organized the first solo exhibition for Franz Marc , whom he introduced to August Macke , in February 1910, which caused a sensation at the time. An exhibition (in the early 1920s) of animal sculptures by the sculptor and freelance artist from the porcelain factory Lorenz Hutschenreuther Prof. Wilhelm Krieger was just as successful . Brakl also exhibited the plaice artists .

In 1913 the patron of the arts had the so-called “Brakl House”, an extremely stately villa, built by the then “star architect” Emanuel von Seidl for himself and his wife and for the representative display of his many paintings and sculptures . Now Brakl also changed the way of presentation. If he had previously argued in favor of exhibiting the offered works in living room simulations so that the buyer could assess the effect of the work, he now aimed to exhibit the works in large halls to enable long-distance effects. Natural light came from a skylight hall through an opening in the floor into the hall below. In the skylight hall itself, Brakl had a black wall covering installed, which in 1913 was still unusual for the presentation of art. However, there were already hangings on black walls, especially by artists like Oskar Kokoschka and Arnold Böcklin . The medical reading room of the Munich University is housed in this today. The life-size, patina-covered woman sculpture in the garden was made by Franz Josef Brakl.

Works

  • Modern game opera. Munich / Leipzig 1886.
  • Commemorative publication on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Gärtnerplatztheater. Munich 1890.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Fornarina , www.carlzeller.at, accessed on February 16, 2012
  2. ↑ http://www.projekte.kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de/stadtfuehrer/medizinische_lesehalle/medizinlesehalle_middle.html
  3. ↑ Marion Ackermann, Colored Walls. On the design of the exhibition space from 1880 to 1930, Wolfratshausen 2003, 61.
  4. ↑ Marion Ackermann, Colored Walls. On the design of the exhibition space from 1880 to 1930, Wolfratshausen 2003, 64.
personal data
SURNAME Brakl, Franz Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brakl, Franz-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera and operetta singer (tenor), theater director and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyrnau , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1935
Place of death Munich