Friedrich Moritz Brodauf

Friedrich Moritz Brodauf (born October 15, 1872 in Großhartmannsdorf , Kingdom of Saxony , † July 16, 1939 in Edwards , New York ) was a German academic sculptor , draftsman and lithographer .

Life and work

Poster with the motto Largo , made by Brodauf on the occasion of a competition of the Ernst Kaps piano factory (1897)

Brodauf was the fourth of four children and had four half-siblings from two other marriages of his father. His father Karl Moritz was a teacher. The brother Franz Alfred was a German politician.

Brodauf attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1888 to 1892 , where he was trained in the department for color printing under Professors Naumann and Diete. After working as a draftsman at Schupp und Nierth (Chromolithographische Anstalt) in Dresden , he went into business for himself in 1896 and made posters. (For example for the Ernst Kaps piano factory .) Around 1905 he ran a painting and drawing school on the White Deer. From 1907 he also worked as a sculptor.

In 1918 King Friedrich August of Saxony awarded him the title of professor. In 1899 he married Lina Agnes Borschdorf-Pohler in Leipzig, whose marriage resulted in four children. He gained fame through portrait busts of leading Saxon personalities, ice sculptures on the White Deer , bronze and stone sculptures.

Brodauf lived in Oberloschwitz in the villa "Glückauf", Rißweg 14b. He died in Edwards, New York, during a trip to the USA in 1939.

Exhibitions (selection)

Brodauf took part in the following exhibitions:

1907: Art exhibition in Düsseldorf
1907: Great Berlin art exhibition
1908: Munich Glass Palace

Works (selection)

Bacchante. Bronze group.
War memorial for those who fell in World War I, in front of the entrance to the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery , Dresden, 1926.

literature

Robert Corwegh : Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Brodauf, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 320 .
Frauke Hinneburg: Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . 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 , p. 307.
Johannes Alfred, Hans Heinrich Brodauf: 600 years of the Brodauf family - A clan register from 1350. Self-published, 1980.

Web links

Friedrich Brodauf in the Dresden City Wiki
Works by Friedrich Moritz Brodauf on artnet

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Frauke Hinneburg: Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . 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 , p. 307.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Robert Corwegh: Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Alexander Koch (Ed.): German art and decoration. Volume 1. Darmstadt, c. 1898, pp. 55 and 56. ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
↑ Christoph Schölzel: Blasewitz, Loschwitz and Weißer Hirsch in old views. Volume 2. European Library, Zaltbommel 1997/2010, ISBN 978-90-288-6495-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German academic sculptor, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Großhartmannsdorf , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	July 16, 1939
Place of death	Edwards , New York

[akl-1] Frauke Hinneburg: Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . 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 , p. 307.

[thb-2] A ^b ^c ^d Robert Corwegh: Brodauf, Friedrich Moritz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Alexander Koch (Ed.): German art and decoration. Volume 1. Darmstadt, c. 1898, pp. 55 and 56. ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

[4] Christoph Schölzel: Blasewitz, Loschwitz and Weißer Hirsch in old views. Volume 2. European Library, Zaltbommel 1997/2010, ISBN 978-90-288-6495-5 .