Karin Bruns (artist)

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Karin Bruns (born Ross, born February 25, 1918 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ; † October 2, 1997 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter, graphic artist and set designer.

life and work

Karin Ross received art lessons from Walter Perron in 1931 . In 1933 she attended the first courses at the Free Academy (Werkkunstschule) in Mannheim , where she studied with Albert Henselmann . From 1934 to 1937 she attended Wilfried Otto's private fashion school in Mannheim. Then Ross studied until 1941 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin .

Since 1940 she made fashion drawings for the silver mirror of the Scherl publishing house . At the same time she was a freelancer at Terra Film . In 1943 she lost all works and designs when her Berlin studio was destroyed in World War II . She returned to Frankenthal in 1945, where she worked in her parents' shoe shop. From 1946 to 1948 she made designs and covers for Aenne Burda's magazine Die Frau .

In 1968 she designed the equipment for the ballet Feuervogel at the Heidelberg City Stage . Bruns designed further equipment for the ballet and the room theater in Heidelberg between 1974 and 1980. From 1974 to 1975 Bruns was second chairwoman of the Palatinate Secession .

In 1945 Karin Ross married the painter and caricaturist Johnny Bruns (1909–1953). In 1949 their daughter Nane (Christiane) was born. It was only after the death of her husband in 1953 that Ross started working under the name Karin Bruns. In 1964 she married the sculptor Theo Siegle , who died in 1973. With the second marriage, the city of Heidelberg became the center of her life.

Memberships

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1964: Exhibition with the Palatinate Secession in the Ludwigshafen cultural center
  • 1968/1969: Exhibition with the Palatinate Secession in the Mayor Ludwig Reichert House in Ludwigshafen
  • 1983: Karin Bruns. Hand drawings and prints. Middle Rhine State Museum Mainz .
  • 1995: Anniversary exhibition 50 years of the Palatinate Secession. Historical Museum of the Palatinate , Speyer

Memorial exhibitions

Awards

  • 1967: Palatinate Prize for Graphics
  • 1986: Willibald Kramm Prize
  • 1993: Art Prize and Picasso Medal of the Association of Palatinate Friends of Art .

Fonts (selection)

  • The sculptor Georg Schubert-Blümling . In: Frankenthal then and now. 1974, No. 3, pp. 18-19.
  • You must be driven! In: Karin Bruns - life and work. Catalog, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg 2003.

literature

  • Wilhelm Weber : Karin Bruns. Hand drawings and prints. Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz 1983.
  • Nane Muelder (ed.): Karin Bruns - life and work. Catalog, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library : Bruns, Johnny (Bruns, Hans Heinz, * in Berlin; † in Frankenthal (Pfalz))
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1997
Place of death Heidelberg