Johannes Brus

Johannes Brus (born June 2, 1942 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German artist . He lives in Essen .

Johannes Brus, Nashorn-Tempel , 1988, cast stone with steel reinforcement, four steel molds. Location: Gladbecker Str. 50 m south of the intersection with Johanniskirchstrasse, Essen- Vogelheim

Life

From 1964 to 1971 he studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1986 to 2007 he was a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig ; his student included u. a. Katharina Grosse , Karin Kneffel , Matthias Brock , Tim Berresheim and Fabian Bohnmann .

Brus works mainly as a sculptor and photographer. He experiments with different techniques with which he breaks the conventions of the respective genre. Many of his works are characterized by an idiosyncratic sense of humor. Brus addresses aspects of cultural memory and the functions of images.

Public collections

• Sprengel Museum, Hanover
• Art Museum, Bochum
• Glaskasten Sculpture Museum , Marl
• Art collection of Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt
• Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
• Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
• Erlangen Art Palace
• Artothek Nuremberg
• New Museum Nuremberg
• Ratingen Museum , Ratingen
• Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen
• DZ-Bank , Frankfurt am Main (photography collection)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
• Center Pompidou , Paris

Prices

• 1979: Villa Romana Art Prize , Florence
• 1982: Defet Prize from the German Association of Artists
• 1983: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn

literature

• Johannes Brus: Photo works . Exhibition catalog of the Städtische Galerie Erlangen 1990. ISBN 3-923899-13-0 , ISBN 3-922531-76-8 .
• Johannes Brus - the shadows of the sculptors . Exhibition catalog of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 2006. ISBN 978-3-924412-56-2 .
• Johannes Brus, the whole iceberg . Edited by Klaus Gallwitz. Exhibition catalog of the Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck 2007. ISBN 978-3-933085-27-6 ; also Düsseldorf: Richter, ISBN 978-3-937572-76-5 .
• Johannes Brus, giving picture for trophy. Edited by Beat Wismer and Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann. Exhibition catalog of the Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf. Bielefeld, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-247-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Brus . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg December 1986, ART Lexicon of Contemporary Artists, p. 108 .
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Marianne and Hansfried Defet Prize / 1982 Johannes Brus, Essen ( memento of March 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 10, 2015)
3. ↑ kunstfonds.de: Working grants 1983 / Johannes Brus (accessed on August 14, 2015)

gallery

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  "Tempelchen" (1982) - Sculpture Garden Nuremberg

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  "Equestrian statue with column rearrangement" (1992) - Andreij-Sacharow-Platz, Nuremberg

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  “Treidelpfad” (2008) - Remagen Sculpture Bank

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  "Nashorn" (2002) - Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf

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  "Horse" (1993–2002) - Angerbach near Ratingen

literature

• Johannes Brus, giving picture for trophy. Edited by Beat Wismer and Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann. Exhibition cat. Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf. Bielefeld, Leipzig 2009. ISBN 978-3-86678-247-1
• Johannes Brus, the whole iceberg. Edited by Klaus Gallwitz. Exhibition cat. Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck 2007. ISBN 978-3-933085-27-6 , ISBN 978-3-937572-76-5 (Richter)
• Johannes Brus - the shadows of the sculptors. Exhibition cat. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen 2006. ISBN 978-3-924412-56-2
• Johannes Brus, photographic work. Exhibition cat. City Galerie Erlangen 1990. ISBN 3-923899-13-0 , ISBN 3-922531-76-8

Web links

Commons : Johannes Brus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johannes Brus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johannes Brus at ruhrnachrichten.de
• Entry at the RuhrKunstMuseen RKM on the Rhinoceros Temple in Essen