Heinrich Bromm

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Heinrich Bromm (born October 7, 1910 in Mühlhausen i. Ostpr. , Prussian Holland district ; † July 19, 1941 at Obidowitschi on the Dnieper ) was a German painter. He died during combat operations in World War II .

Life

Heinrich Bromm grew up in Königsberg in the old town Langgasse near Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz. From 1929 he attended the Old Town High School and studied until 1934 at the Königsberg Art Academy with Fritz Burmann figure painting, with Franz Marten applied graphics and with Richard Pfeiffer wall painting. At the same time he had taken natural science subjects such as biology and geography at the Albertina in order to meet his father's wishes and to complete a teacher training course.

After graduating in natural sciences in 1933, he worked with Willy Jaeckel in Berlin . There he completed his studies with the state examination for artistic teaching in 1934. He returned to Königsberg in 1936 and became a master student of Eduard Bischoff for free painting at the Königsberg Art Academy .

He made his military service in 1935/36 with the mounted artillery in Insterburg . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, as a soldier he was in Poland , Holland , France and most recently in Russia , where he died on July 19, 1941 near Obidowitschi on the Dnieper.

Works

Bromm painted the landscapes of his homeland as well as those of Norway , which he rode through on a bicycle study trip in 1933. His paintings from southern France were more colorful than the paintings from Poland and Russia .

These pictures were shown at exhibitions, including in the Nierendorf Gallery . Public commissions such as the painting of the Ratskeller in Insterburg, sgraffiti and frescoes on the buildings of the National Political Education Institute in Stuhm or the design of the glass windows in the government building in Allenstein made him known. In 1936 he painted the Tilsit house in the Olympic Village in Berlin .

Much of his work was destroyed by the effects of the war during the bombing in Königsberg in August 1944. Only about 200 of his watercolors and factory photos were saved by his mother and sister on the run.

Heinrich Bromm loved music and played the organ , viola and violin himself . That is why he shows people in front of a fictional landscape holding musical instruments in their hands.

Four months after his death, a memorial exhibition was held in his honor in the coronation coronation of Königsberg Palace .

literature

  • Jörn Barfod, Ingeborg Kelch-Nolde: Heinrich Bromm 1910–1941. An East Prussian painter . Husum Verlag, Husum 1995, ISBN 3-88042-753-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bromm, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen i. Ostpr. , Prussian Holland district
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1941
Place of death near Obidowitschi on the Dnieper