Hans Bruehlmann

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Hans Brühlmann: The water creator (Danaide) . Oil on cardboard, 1909

Hans Ernst Brühlmann (born February 25, 1878 in Amriswil , † September 29, 1911 in Stuttgart ) was a Swiss painter . He stood out primarily with landscape paintings, still lifes and portraits and is today counted among the most important Swiss pioneers of modernism.

Life

Hans Brühlmann, the second of four children of a strict pastor and a factory owner's daughter who is interested in art, graduated from the St. Gallen Cantonal School with the Matura . He then attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts , and from 1899 with interruptions the Kgl. Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he studied from 1901 with Carlos Grethe and Adolf Hölzel , from 1903 with Leopold von Kalckreuth . During this time he made friends with Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini . Brühlmann was an early member of the German Association of Artists ; his name can be found for the first time in 1906 in the directory of members of the exhibition catalog for the 3rd annual exhibition of the DKB in Weimar. In the same year he went on a study trip to Italy. In 1907/1908 he received two commissions for monumental murals in Pfullingen and Stuttgart. In 1908 he stayed in Paris for a long time to study the art products there and was particularly impressed by Cézanne .

On September 29, 1911, at the age of 33, he shot himself in Stuttgart after suffering for years from syphilis, which at the time was still incurable . The illness, which he presumably contracted in 1903, broke out at the end of 1909, later he fell mentally deranged at times and had to be hospitalized for months. After a short recovery phase, since the right hand was paralyzed, he continued to paint with the left hand. Due to his poor health, he could no longer accept honorable orders for the new Zurich art house and an appointment as a teacher at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts.

Hans Brühlmann was married to Nina Bindschedler, a singer who had trained in Stuttgart and who, despite his illness, which he had revealed to her, had not broken off the engagement and stayed with him. Many of his works and probably his writings have been lost or destroyed.

After his death there were commemorative exhibitions in Zurich, Basel, Hagen and Cologne, after which the artist and his work fell into oblivion and was only gradually rediscovered. The eponymous exhibition, "Hölzel und seine Kreis", shown in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1916 and in Frankfurt am Main in 1917, was a reminder of his work with several works. The exhibition "Hölzel and his circle" arranged by Wolfgang Venzmer in 1961 at the Stuttgart Kunstverein accentuated Brühlmann's work even more strongly. The exhibition Hans Brühlmann (1878 - 1911) Pictures and Drawings was on view from February 8 to May 3, 2009 at the Saner Foundation in Studen and from May 17 to July 12, 2009 at the Langmatt Museum in Baden .

Selected Works

  • Oeschinensee near Kandersteg . Oil on canvas, 1905
  • Gloomy mood . Oil on canvas, 1905
  • Portrait with a red chair . Oil on cardboard, 1907
  • Bouquet of tulips , oil on canvas, 1908
  • Toggenburg landscape ( Churfirsten ) . Oil on cardboard, 1907
  • Self-portrait with a light cap . Oil on cardboard, 1908–1909
  • Zinnias in front of colored cloth . Oil on cardboard, 1909
  • The water creator (Danaide) . Oil on cardboard, 1909
  • Nude in the studio with bowed head . Oil on canvas, 1909

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members from 1903 full members of the German Association of Artists. kuenstlerbund.de, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ s. List of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Association of Artists Exhibition , Weimar 1906, p. 40 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog Hölzel and his circle 1916 . Stuttgart: Strecker and Schröder [Drucker], September 1916, illus. P. 25 (“Apple girl”), 26 (“Self-portrait”), 27 (“Small act with dog”), 28 (“Toggenburg landscape”).
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog Hölzel and his circle: Stuttgart's contribution to 20th century painting . Opening exhibition of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in the rebuilt art building on Schloßplatz, September 8 to November 5, 1961, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei, 1961, cat.-no. 39–68, ill. Pp. 55–58, 65–68.
  5. ↑ Hans Brühlmann. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hans Brühlmann (1878-1911): Pictures and Drawings , on altertuemliches.at, accessed on March 21, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Brühlmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brühlmann, Hans Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Amriswil
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1911
Place of death Stuttgart