Kaspar Braun
Kaspar Braun (born August 13, 1807 in Aschaffenburg , † October 29, 1877 in Munich ), also Caspar Braun , was a German painter , draftsman , illustrator , wood engraver and publisher .
After attending grammar school in his hometown, he studied at the Munich Art Academy directed by Cornelius . After painting and drawing trips that took him to northern Germany and Hungary, he went to France in 1838 to work in the studio of the Parisian Louis-Henri Brévière , one of the leading European wood cutters of his time. With the skills he acquired there, after his return to Munich in 1839, he founded a xylographic institute together with Hofrat Georg von Dessauer . After Dessauer left the company, Braun teamed up with the publisher Friedrich Schneider in 1843 and founded the Braun & Schneider publishing house . Together with the latter, he published the humorous, satirical, illustrated weekly newspaper Die Fliegende Blätter from 1845, which survived until 1944. The acquisition of the rights to Max and Moritz , one of Wilhelm Busch's early picture stories, is considered a stroke of luck in publishing . The Münchener Bilderbogen were also published by her publishing house , an early forerunner of the comic books of the 20th century, on which such well-known artists as Wilhelm Busch , Franz Graf von Pocci and Moritz von Schwind contributed. Kaspar Braun made a special contribution to Munich's local history when he had the Münchner Kindl , the coat of arms of the city of Munich, rise from the coat of arms in a drawing in 1847 . He gave the impetus to order a personification of this figure for the Munich Oktoberfest and other occasions as a representative of the city of Munich.
tomb
The grave of Kaspar Braun located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 7 - number 10 - Place 4/5) Location .
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Braun, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 198-203.
- Arthur Rümann: Braun, Caspar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 555 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kaspar Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kaspar Braun in HeidICON Illustrations of the Flying Leaves
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braun, Kaspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braun, Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman, illustrator, wood engraver and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1877 |
| Place of death | Munich |