Maria Brück

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Maria Brück (born September 28, 1913 in Hechingen-Hohenzollern ; † February 2, 2013 ), née Kohl, was a German painter.

Live and act

Brück's father Otto coal (1888–1938) from the Franconian Bavaria came from a family of church painters, her mother Martina (1890–1974) from a painting company in the village of Sickingen, which is adjacent to Hechingen . Maria grew up with four sisters, while her parents initially ran a tailor's workshop at Kaufhausstrasse 1 and then at Silberburgstrasse 55, and her mother motivated her to enjoy artistic design.

A distinction is made between four creative phases, depending on whether Maria Brück was primarily oriented towards a certain drawing and painting style:

  • The Amber Era (1942–1956)
  • In the style of Cubism (1957–1972)
  • The blue phase (1958–1980)
  • The concentric style (1970–2003).

Maria Brück herself only named her teacher Paul Kälberer and later Hans Pfeiffer at the Bernstein School in the former Bernstein Abbey near Sulz aN in the years 1942–1948 as her artistic role models. But her preference for painters like Pablo Picasso and George Braque is obvious. After completing her apprenticeship as a tailor in 1936 with the master's examination and in 1937 married her husband Hans Brück (1903-1992), who was born in Ulm, the artist trained largely self-taught until she took private lessons with Paul Kälberer in 1941 and from 1947 a good one Systematically takes art lessons at the Bernstein School for a year. Later v. a. the concentric phase show which handicraft techniques she combines from her tailoring trade (painting according to stencils or patterns) and the painting studied in amber but also the lino cut. The Tübingen journalist Rudolf Greiner describes this after a visit to her studio on the ground floor of her house as follows: “From rhythmically curved lines that intersect and knot, eyes, noses, chin shapes and hands emerge in Maria Brück's pictures as if by themselves. These are symbols of the human senses. The spontaneous lines are mutually dependent. One swing follows another. Ellipses, circles and spiral shapes emerge, whose mathematical, constructive definition mutates into the basic organic pattern in Maria Brück's pictures.

The eyes are usually the starting point for these vibrations, which then run out through the hands. This inevitably creates head and bust images in which the body solidifies as light and movement and at the same time exudes. It often coincides with the shape of musical instruments such as the lute and harp. Musical feelings are also expressed with the coloring. Like the sounds of spheres, the colors are arranged in symphonies of the human soul, which contain a reception, processing and emanation of ideas. In the meditation pictures she covers this path. ”After the birth of her two children in 1938 and 1940, economic hardship in and after the Second World War forced her to raise her two sons Dieter and Roland and buy a home (in Amselweg in Hechingen), with art, v. a. commissioned to paint portraits to earn money. She also teaches tailoring at the municipal adult education center in Hechingen for ten years. After her children are out of school, Maria Brück frees herself from painting guidelines and gradually begins to develop her very own, unmistakable style, which she refined or automated until the end of 2003. In doing so, she makes sure that her pictures are never sold below their value, otherwise she keeps them in her studio and archive. When she took over the chairmanship of the ´Artists' Guild` from 1973 to 1978 (of which she was a founding member in 1952), she ensured a permanent home for this present-day ´Art Association` in the ´Weißen Häusle` in the Fürstengarten.

Like other great, extremely creative artists who have been called on by her personal depth, Maria Brück confronted herself over and over again over the decades during her artistic work, which her numerous self-portraits give expression to. However, she rarely dares to use plastic, figurative representations such as B. the completely related clay figure ´The meditator`. While she herself increasingly deals with graphology and astrology, she recognizes herself as a Libra type with a high level of ability and a vocation for art and communication, which is reflected very clearly and repeatedly in picture headings such as 'Encounter' and 'Synthesis'. Last but not least, also with the tendency to transcendence, such as with the artistic view into “space” and “in the force field of light”.

She increasingly understands her very long life as “multi-layered being” and humans in general “as multi-layered being” when she finally published a complete catalog of her life's work under this title in 2006.

Selection of some individual exhibitions

  • Haigerloch: Gallery "The Black Staircase", 4. – 30. October 1974
  • Joué les Tours (France) athaus, together with the artists' guild Hechingen, 1973, 1975, 1980
  • Hechingen: Town Hall, 2.03-23 March 1980
  • Bernhausen-Stuttgart: Small Art Cabinet, together with Gisela Krayer, 2. – 30. November 1983
  • Sigmaringen: Round Tower, January 1984
  • Kirchheim / Teck: Kornhaussaal, together with Paul Kälberer, 14.2.-11. March 1984
  • Munich: House International, September 1984
  • Aachen, April 1985
  • Hechingen: Weißes Häusle, September 14, 1985 - October 6, 1985
  • Paris: Palais de Congrès, 1985
  • Burladingen: Rathaus, together with Berte Koehle, June 1987
  • Herrenberg: Galerie der Stadt Herrenberg, May 6-25, 2001
  • Hechingen: Villa Eugenia, "Man - the complex being", February 1, 2007 - May 30, 2007.
  • Balingen: District Hospital, 4.03.-30. May 2007
  • Hechingen: Hohenzollerisches Landesmuseum , anniversary exhibition for the 100th birthday, July 24th-6th October 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Despite everything, I persevered. A look at an eventful life: On the 100th birthday of the Hechingen artist Maria Brück. In: Hohenzollerische Zeitung, Hechingen, September 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Your own life is the basis for art. Maria Brück tells about her time in the amber school. Interview with Darijana Hahn, in: Schwarzwälder Bote, Hechingen, August 5, 1999.
  3. ↑ (cf. Rudolf Greiner, in: Maria Brück, Drawing and Painting Works, 1950-1979, n.d., p. 21)
  4. ↑ "You always have to work on yourself if you want to be an artist". Maria Brück on the beginnings and development of the Hechingen artists' guild. In. Hohenzollerische Zeitung, Hechingen, March 4, 1991
  5. ↑ Antonia Lezerkoss: A "picture-filled" life. Maria Brück will be 95 and will get an exhibition on Sunday. In the Hohenzollerische Zeitung, Hechingen, September 27, 2008.
  6. ↑ Every picture becomes a harmonious composition. Maria Brück answers questions from those interested in art in the White House. In: Hohenzollerische Zeitung, Hechingen, June 22, 2002
  7. ↑ images of the same name are created full of deep light. In: Hohenzollerische Zeitung, March 3, 1980
  8. ↑ Maria Brück: Man - the complex being. Visual works by Maria Brück with reports from the press. Hechingen, self-published, 2006.
  9. ^ Maria Brück - anniversary exhibition for the 100th birthday hzl-museum.de, accessed on May 21, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Brück, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coal, Maria (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2013