Jo Brenneis
Jo Brenneis (pseudonym as artist: Jobrenn ; born February 19, 1910 in Aschaffenburg , † 1994 in Hochheim am Main ) was a German painter .
Life
Brenneis received painting lessons from the painter Marie von Questionestein as a child. He studied at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach am Main . From 1931 he worked as a freelance artist and was a member of the Rote Reiter artists' association. He usually signed with "Jobrenn". From 1933 he went on study trips to neighboring countries. In Switzerland he met Paul Klee , whose work impressed him. From this time on he dealt with abstraction .
Brenneis spent the Second World War as an employed draftsman at MAN in Mainz-Gustavsburg. Then he worked freelance again and turned to abstract painting. He went on study trips to Holland, Spain, Italy and the South of France. He had exhibitions in Germany (Mainz, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Munich, Berlin and Karlsruhe), the USA (New York, Florida), Chile (Santiago de Chile), France (Paris, Nice), Italy (Genoa) and Luxembourg.
After the end of the war he resumed his work as a freelance artist. Numerous study trips and stays abroad in Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Ischia, southern France, Spain / Mallorca and America followed.
In 1953 Jo Brenneis took another trip to Spain / Mallorca where he came across the artist Joan Miró and spent a few days with him. In 1954, Brenneis traveled to Cagnes sur Mer in southern France with his friend Feri Varga . Through Varga he got to know Pablo Picasso . It emerged cubist works.
In 1958 Brenneis founded the "Working Group of Visual Artists Rhein-Main" and the "Association of Visual Artists Rhein Main" and presented his works with them in the Palazzo del Parco in Bordighera . In the following years he had exhibitions in Dijon, in the Salon international de la grande des art, as well as in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Genoa and numerous other cities. The USA followed and finally Santiago de Chile . In Germany in 1964 in Mainz his paintings were exhibited together with works by Georges Braque , Marc Chagall , Otto Dix , HAP Grieshaber Erich Heckel , Pablo Picasso Heinz Trökes and other artists.
Until his last exhibition in 1969, he remained true to his artistic conception. His pictures, permeated with color and set in mature, creative power, are the expression of a life's work.
In 1970, Jo Brenneis fell seriously ill and was forced to stop working as an artist. He died in 1994 in Hochheim near Frankfurt.
plant
Several epochs that are close together and quickly merge into one another can be distinguished. Most of the time the artist preferred the strong color accords in flowing, broad brushwork. Spain, especially Mallorca, gave him strong artistic inspiration. But he also loved the brown and reddish colors of the Rheingau landscape. He used a special mixed technique and had switched to scratching the lines on a special surface, something new that was previously only practiced on the wall. In his compositions the artist preferred the horizontal or the vertical as the dominant form principle, which gave his pictures a clear, harmonious structure.
Occasionally, works by the artist are offered in auction shops.
Exhibitions
- 2007: Jo Brenneis (1910-1994) , Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen
literature
- Christine Kustermann-Baumstark, Werner Baumstark: Jo Brenneis, catalog raisonné of paintings , Verlag Baumstark, Engel, Siegert, 2005, ISBN 978-3-00015491-1
- Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon, Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11014937-0 , p. 85
Web links
- Literature by and about Jo Brenneis in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brenneis, Jo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Job race (artist name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |
| Place of death | Hochheim am Main |