Gustaf Britsch

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Gustaf Adolf Britsch (born August 11, 1879 in Hedelfingen near Stuttgart, † October 27, 1923 in Starnberg ) was a German art theorist of the early 20th century and the founder of the Gustaf Britsch Institute in Starnberg.

Life

Gustaf Britsch was born into a middle-class Swabian family of teachers. He alienated himself from his parents at an early age. He first studied architecture at the TH Stuttgart and worked as an architect in Stuttgart. Then he matriculated in 1906 at the University of Munich for philosophy and aesthetics with Hans Cornelius and Theodor Lipps . As early as 1907, he was creating theories that addressed the understanding of art according to Adolf von Hildebrand and Konrad Fiedler . In 1909 he founded the "Institute for Theoretical and Applied Art Studies" in Florence . In 1910 he was encouraged by Cornelius to publish his own theories. He moved back to Munich in 1911 and reopened the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Art Studies in 1912 on Theresienstrasse in Schwabing . In 1913 he spoke at the Congress for Aesthetics and General Art Studies in Berlin. Together with his pupil Egon Kornmann , he represented a highly regarded doctrine about children's artistic development, which found its way into the organization of art classes in Germany. These theories were also contradicted, for example by Richard Mund .

After Britsch's death, Kornmann continued to run the Gustaf Britsch Institute in Starnberg. Egon Kornmann also married Britsch's widow Luise and with her clarified Britsch's designs and theories. This is how the Starnberg Kornmann-Britsch-Kreis (also: Britsch-Kornmann-Schule) came into being, to which the art teacher Hans Herrmann (1899–1981) is also assigned. Kornmann was also editor of the magazine "Die Gestalt (sheets for drawing and art lessons)" in the 1930s.

The Gustaf Britsch Institute today, view from the sea side

Gustaf Britsch Institute

The Gustaf-Britsch-Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (also known as: Institute for Theoretical and Applied Art Studies; School for Fine Arts Starnberg; Private Art School Britsch-Kornmann; Gustaf-Britsch-Institute for Comparative Art Studies) existed in Munich from 1912 and then from around 1920 until about 1967 in a glamorous villa at Prinzenweg 13 in Starnberg under the direction of Egon and Luise Kornmann.

Around 1940, the Kornmanns housed their artist friend Clara Harnack from Jena for a few months , who was thus safe from the Gestapo's investigations . Mildred and Arvid Harnack and Lilo Ramdohr were also guests for the New Year 1941/42 .

For decades, numerous international artists and art teachers have been trained and employed in courses on the theory and practice of art and art education, such as:

Publications

Britsch and Kornmann published art theoretical treatises, some of which were published by the Gustaf-Britsch-Institut Starnberg as teaching material:

  • Gustaf Britsch: Theory of Fine Art (Ed .: Egon Kornmann), 1926
  • Gustaf Britsch: Theory of the fine arts . 4th edition, Verlag Henn, Ratingen 1966
  • Egon Kornmann (ed.): Beginnings of new youth art. Original holdings of folk art from the German-speaking area (certificates of German folk art, volume 3, published by the Gustaf Britsch Institute) Starnberg 1927
  • Egon Kornmann: For the assessment of hand drawings . (Communications from the Gustaf Britsch Institute for Art Science. Book I. Printed as a manuscript for the institute's circle) Gustaf Britsch Institute, Starnberg 1929.
  • Egon Kornmann: Pictures of the landscape from the 16th and 17th centuries . Max Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1945
  • Egon Kornmann: The theory of Gustaf Britsch as the basis of art education . Düsseldorf, Schwann, 1948. (On the will of German art education; 3)
  • Egon Kornmann: About the regularity and value of children's drawings . 3rd edition, Aloys Henn Verlag, Ratingen 1953
  • Egon Kornmann: Art in Life. Collected essays . Edited by Hans Herrmann. Aloys Henn, Ratingen 1954
  • Egon Kornmann: Basic principles of visual design . Introduction to art theory by Gustaf Britsch. Henn, Ratingen 1962
  • Gustaf Britsch: Writings. Fragments of Art Theory of the Early 20th Century . 1981. ISBN 3-7861-1240-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ web.me.com (PDF)
  2. ↑ 8. Subject didactics: 8.4 History of art education . In: zum.de .
  3. ↑ The figure. Quarterly publication for visual education . In: gestalt-archiv.de .
  4. ↑ members.aon.at ( Memento from May 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Fritz von Graevenitz short biography - Fritz von Graevenitz Foundation . In: graevenitz-stiftung.de .
  6. ↑ destatis.de (PDF)
  7. ↑ antikbayreuth.de ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ forschung.gnm.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forschung.gnm.de  
  9. ↑ museum-malchin.de ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-malchin.de
  10. ↑ Irina Alexandrowna Borchman on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
  11. ↑ claims and lies of John Tschinkel and Alenka Auersperger, Graz 2005 . In: gottschee.de .
  12. ↑ Hans Grünseis . In: kunstmarkt.com .
  13. ↑ antiquariat-henke.de
personal data
SURNAME Britsch, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Britsch, Gustav-Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedelfingen
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1923
Place of death Starnberg