Georg Heinrich Brauns

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Georg Heinrich Brauns , nickname Heinrich , (born June 13, 1808 in Hanover ; † October 12, 1856 there ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Georg Heinrich Brauns was born in Hanover during the so-called " French era ", where he first attended the court school and later the Lyceum . From 1824 to 1828 Brauns studied at the Art Academy in Berlin and then traveled to several larger cities in Germany.

Lithograph dated 1838 with the half-length portrait of August Müller , first pastor at the Aegidienkirche

After returning to his hometown as a portrait painter in 1830, Georg Heinrich Brauns became an assistant teacher of freehand drawing at the higher trade school in Hanover in 1832 , and in 1846 he was permanently employed. There he was one of the teachers of the young Wilhelm Busch .

Part-time, he was doing the same job from 1835 to 1856 at the municipal craft and unified parochial school in Hanover, from 1836 to 1856 then as the successor to Georg Gläser at the higher middle school led by Adolf Tellkampf . His successor was Adolf Nieß .

On November 1, 1832, Brauns joined the Johannisloge Zum Schwarzen Bär in the Orient from Hanover as a Freemason .

The artist's signature Br is known from Brauns .

Works

Several lithographs by Georg Heinrich Brauns are known.

Braun created cartoons that as lithographs of the year during the 1846-47 Hermann Grote issued Hannoversche country leaves appeared. The works were published on the construction of the Hanoverian railway, on the Schützenplatz an der Ohe as well as on contemporary events such as a balloon ride , the explosion of gun cotton or the spirit of a law over the city ​​of Hanover, which can be identified as a city ​​silhouette .

literature

  • Adolf Tellkampf : The high school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845, p. 77 ( digitized version ).
  • Adolf Tellkampf: The higher bourgeois school in Hanover described by the director of the institution on the occasion of the celebration of its 25th anniversary on October 9, 1860. Friedrich Culemann, Hanover 1860, p. 114 ( digitized version ).
  • Catalogus professorum. The teaching staff of the TH Hannover 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hannover, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 29 (with picture).
  • Brauns, Georg Heinrich . 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. 20.

Web links

Commons : Georg Heinrich Brauns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wrongly Georg Friedrich Brauns. In: Mitteilungen der Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft , issues 15–21 (1949), p. 69 ( preview over Google books).
  2. ^ A b Adolf Tellkampf: The higher citizens' school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845, p. 77 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Communications of the Wilhelm Busch Society , issues 15–21 (1949), p. 69 ( preview over Google books).
  4. ^ Catalogus professorum. The teaching staff of the TH Hannover 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hannover, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 29.
  5. ^ Adolf Tellkampf: The higher bourgeois school in Hanover described by the director of the institution on the occasion of the celebration of its 25th anniversary on October 9, 1860. Friedrich Culemann, Hanover 1860, p. 102f. ( Digitized version ), 114 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the black bear in the Orient of Hanover. 1774 - 1874. History of the lodge . By W. Nöldeke. Secular celebration on March 16 and 17, 1874. According to the records of LE du Bois. Hanover: Jänecke, 1875, p. 6; Digitized via Google books
  7. ^ A b Alheidis von Rohr : Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover from the 16th century to 2000 , book accompanying the exhibition of the same name (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover, issue no. 17) Hanover 2000, ISBN 3-910073-18-2 , pp. 95, 96, 113; Preview over google books.
  8. ^ Alheidis von Rohr : Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover , issue 17). Historisches Museum, Hannover 2000, ISBN 978-3-910073-18-0 and ISBN 3-910073-18-2 , pp. 95f., 113
personal data
SURNAME Brauns, Georg Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauns, Heinrich (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, lithographer, caricaturist and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1856
Place of death Hanover