Maike Bruhns

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Maike Bruhns (* 1940 ) is an art historian , author , curator and art collector who researches and publishes mainly on forgotten Hamburg artists from the time of National Socialism .

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Maike Bruhns studied German and art history from 1960 to 1964 at the Universities of Munich and Hamburg . In 1986 she did her doctorate with a thesis on the Hamburg artist of Jewish descent Anita Rée . Her research interests include the subjects of the Hamburg Secession , art in the Third Reich , art in exile , art during World War II and art after 1945. She also wrote about the art historian Rosa Schapire and artistic works in buildings by Fritz Schumacher .

In 2005, the art lexicon Der neue Rump , which was largely expanded and edited by Bruhns, was published . Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. It is based on the lexicon written by Ernst Rump in 1912 , which has become a classic under the term Der Rump . In 2013 a new edition, revised and expanded by her, appeared.

Bruhns has curated numerous exhibitions, including Excluded in 2005 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle . At the beginning of 2013, over 100 works by 80 artists from the Maike Bruhns collection were shown in the exhibition Nachtmahre und Ruinenengel. Hamburg art from 1920 to 1949 shown on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Kunsthaus Hamburg . The focus was on works from 1933 to 1945 by discriminated or persecuted Hamburg artists.

In December 2013 Maike Bruhns received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her research work . On October 31, 2014, the Hamburg State and University Library awarded her the HamburgLesen 2014 Book Prize for the best Hamburg book for her book Bauschmuck by Fritz Schumacher .

Archive for Persecuted Art in Hamburg (AVK)

The Archive for Persecuted Art was founded on the initiative of Maike Bruhns. This is based in the Warburg House , Heilwigstrasse 116 in Hamburg. It contains, among other things, collections of material on individual artists of the Hamburg Secession , on ostracized and adapted artists during the Nazi era. It also contains materials on museums and art institutions, artists' associations, personalities from cultural life, collectors and art dealers.

Publications (selection)

  • Volker Meier - A painter in Hamburg - works from 1955–1987 , Sautter + Lackmann, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 978-3889200099 .
  • Kurt Löwengard - A forgotten Hamburg painter , Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 978-3923356355 .
  • Rolf Nesch - Evidence of an unusual artist's life in turbulent times , Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 1993, ISBN 978-3-926112-37-8 .
  • Art in crisis. Vol. 1: Hamburg Art in the “Third Reich”. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-94-4 .
  • Art in crisis . Vol. 2: Artist Lexicon Hamburg 1933–1945. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 .
  • Anita Rée. Life and work of a Hamburg painter 1885–1933. Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-923356-15-3 .
  • The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition, ed. by Kay Rump, edited by Maike Bruhns, with the assistance of Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .
  • Schapire, pink . In: The Jewish Hamburg - a historical reference work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0004-0 , page 223.
  • Fled Germany - Hamburg artists in exile 1933–1945 , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-890-5 .
  • The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg. Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .
  • Building jewelry from Fritz Schumacher. Hamburg Architecture Archive: Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive; Vol. 30. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86218-038-7 .
  • Emil Maetzel : late work 1945–1955. Wachholtz, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-03436-7 .
  • ... on behalf of the entire German art on vorgeschobenem post ... . In: Painting and sculpture in Germany 1936. The history of a prohibited exhibition , Heinrich Stegemann Art Foundation, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-1036-5 .
  • Anita Rée (1885–1933) - Das Werk , Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.), Prestel Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-5712-6 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the websites of Bruhns and Deutschlandradio
  2. ↑ Art historian Maike Bruhns from Hamburg receives Federal Cross of Merit, nordic-market.de, December 18, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Tanja Schreiner: Award for Maike Bruhns , Eimsbütteler Nachrichten , November 4, 2014
  4. ↑ hamburglesen.de
  5. ^ Art in the Crisis / The Archive , kunst-in-der-krise.de, accessed on October 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bruhns, Maike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and collector, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1940