Johann Brunner (sculptor)

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Johann Brunner (born November 29, 1958 in Surberg ) is a German sculptor and painter. Before completing his academic training as a sculptor, he learned the trades of mosaicist , art glass and glass painter .

Life and education

Johann Brunner was born into a family of craftsmen and farmers in the community of Surberg near Traunstein . He attended the Chiemgau grammar school in Traunstein and the private grammar school Schloss Stein , and in 1979 he graduated from high school.

In 1980 he began an apprenticeship as a mosaicist at the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in Munich. He worked on commissioned work, including a calligraphic mosaic for a mosque in Riyadh . To learn the craft, he made copies of classic, figural mosaics from Ravenna , Rome and Pompeii . He made contemporary mosaic patterns for Ludwig Schaffrath and Brian Clarke, among others . In Hanover, together with Hubert Distler, he installed the glass window in the Gustav-Adolf-Kirche . For the design of the onyx windows for the apse of the Expressionist Church of St. Johann Baptist with the artist Reinhold Grübl , Brunner was commissioned with the implementation. He worked on the reconstruction and assembly of the windows of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport with city images. Among the artists for whom he has realized works are José Rincón Mora , Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , Blasius Spreng , Johannes Schreiter and Josef Oberberger . In 1982 he completed his apprenticeship with distinction.

After his acquittal , he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Eduardo Paolozzi . From 1986 to 1989 he was Paolozzi's master class student. Recurring motifs by Brunner at this time are honeycombs, labyrinths and virtual settlements. Around 1986 Brunner undertook a study trip to Peru and Bolivia. In 1988 he devoted himself to stone carving during a study visit to Carrara . A year later he received his diploma and was awarded the debutant award.

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In 1990, Johann Brunner received a grant from the Ministry of Science and Art and laid the foundation for independence as a freelance sculptor and painter as well as in the arts and crafts . In this area he dedicates himself to the design of liturgical facilities and equipment, such as altars, ambones or sediles, as well as the design of church windows and the reconstruction of wall paintings.

He was involved in the restoration of the Mannerist wall paintings from the 16th century in the Walburgis Chapel in Klosterseeon , which was carried out between 2002 and 2006.

The Romanesque church of St. Ulrich in the district of Ainau von Geisenfeld from around 1220/1230 was extensively restored as part of the structural protection of the building after serious damage. Johann Brunner designed the three colored windows of the apse and made the glass panes himself. For each of these windows he combined three glass panes, painted in the classic technique, one behind the other to create a composite. The altar for the pilgrimage church of the epileptics St. Valentin in Marzoll was created by Johann Brunner around 2010 from Untersberg marble .

Portrait work (selection):

  • North window of the apse of Ortisei (Ainau)

  • Profile Wolfgang Menger, bronze casting (Norderney)

  • Edith Stein bust, detail of the lips (Walhalla)

  • Altar in St. Valentin, north side (Marzoll)

Exhibitions

  • 1987: Galerie am Maxwehr, Skulp , Landshut
  • 1989. Modern gallery Saarbrücken, national competition
  • 1988-1989. Glyptothek Munich, Under Heroes and Gods
  • 1989. Rhenaniahalle Cologne, next to each other opposite
  • 1990. Galerie der Künstler, Munich, The first years of professionalism IX
  • 2012. Municipal Gallery Traunstein, Bibliomania

literature

  • Michaela Schleunung: Among heroes and gods. Eduardo Paolozzi and young sculptors from the Munich Academy in the Glyptothek . Munich 1988.
  • Gerald Dobler: Seeon, St. Walburgis: A regained gem of the art of mannerism. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-527-1 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Brunner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Klauser serves here as legitimation for the shortening, simplifying assignment: The praying room. Dominikus Böhm's Church of St. Johann Baptist in Neu-Ulm. A key building in modern sacred architecture. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-644-5 . Cape.
  2. ↑ Reinhart Braun: Art students exhibit. Federal Ministry for Education and Science, Berlin, 1989. p. 104.
  3. ↑ Gerald Dobler: Seeon, St. Walburgis. Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008. pp. 6–9.
  4. ↑ PDF file of the parish invitation to the consecration service after the 'renovation'.
  5. ↑ PDF file of MuseumNachrichten 2/2010 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2011 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. The suitcase of Friederike Ruppert , bath ~ museum . Page 4.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-norderney.de
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Surberg