Max Brüning
Max Brüning (born February 19, 1887 in Delitzsch , † December 24, 1968 in Lindau / Bodensee ) was a German contemporary painter .
life and work
Max Brüning was born on February 19, 1887 in Delitzsch in Markt 20.
From 1902 to 1912 he attended the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig and became a student of the Viennese professor Alois Kolb and the well-known etcher Peter Palm . During Brüning's time at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade, Max Klinger also taught . It is very likely that he met the academic painter Erich Lasse there , who also studied at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts and the Book Industry.
In 1910 Brüning was first mentioned in the art magazine " Ex Libris ". This was followed by exhibitions in Munich and Chemnitz .
On charges of committed and attempted moral crimes in 1913, Brüning traveled to France , Belgium , Italy , Greece , Asia Minor and Turkey to avoid imprisonment.
In 1914 he was accepted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There he became a student of Franz von Stuck .
During the First World War , Brüning had to do military service on the Western Front in 1915 . He was an artistic collaborator for the German war newspaper. In northern France he made drawings of prisoners, the events of the war and life in the camps, such as the etchings "Citadel of Cambrai ", "Night Watch" and "Englishman with a Shattered Steel Helmet " as well as many others, which justify his reputation as an etcher. He was appointed by Crown Prince Wilhelm to be his personal drawing teacher and gave drawing lessons. Wilhelm liked to call him "Professor". A friendship developed between Brüning and Wilhelm. As stated in the bulletin of the Typographische Gesellschaft München , he mastered all etching techniques in such a way that "one could seriously speak of a gifted talent".
From 1918 to 1923 he stayed in Leipzig again.
In 1923 the company moved to Berlin . There Brüning worked for magazines and also made poster designs and portraits as etchings and pastels . Numerous portraits of women and girls were created, as well as slightly erotic depictions with subtle humor. These shaped Brüning's reputation. During this time, Brüning also dealt with Asian art, culture and philosophy.
His studio was a well-known attraction, he owned one of the richest art collections of Asian provenance. It became a meeting point for national and international personalities from film, art, sport and politics. Personal relationships (e.g. to Tibetan lamas , Indian yogis ( Selvarajan Yesudian ), Aleister Crowley , Max Schmeling ) were reflected in some of the pictures. The world economic crisis and emerging European conflicts ended the easy-going time.
In 1935 Brüning married the painter Viktoria Richter , who supplemented him with many joint works. Both left Berlin, quartered briefly on the Baltic Sea and moved to Oberstdorf - Brüning was enthusiastic skiers. In 1938 they moved to Igls near Innsbruck . There he created portraits and paintings about the world of the mountains, which were later bought by the House of German Art in Munich, among others .
In a bombing raid on Berlin in 1943, 300 of Brüning's etching plates, which were kept in the Schütz art copper engraving, were destroyed.
In 1945 he moved with only a few belongings to Lindau on Lake Constance , as he was expelled from Austria as a German citizen despite the intervention of well-known art connoisseurs and admirers . A modest studio was created under the most difficult conditions. There he created oil paintings , watercolors and etchings with Lake Constance motifs. He lived a secluded life, although his works had gained prominence in many art galleries in Europe and overseas.
Brüning's guest book is a mirror of his life and contemporary history. It contains the names of Norma Talmadge , Fritz Kampers , Max Schmeling , Joe Wannemacker , Barnum , Harrymann , Willi Fritsch , Gustav Fröhlich , Hideki Yukawa , Werner Zimmermann , Ottorino Respighi , Heinrich Harrer , Hans Huebmer , E. Kréal and Hans Sterneder .
In the 1950s and 1960s he traveled several times to Ticino and Spain . From 1961 to 1963 Brüning worked on drawings and etchings for the Olympic city of Innsbruck (IX. Olympic Winter Games 1964 ).
A traffic accident in 1963 put an end to Brüning's artistic work. On December 24, 1968, Brüning died in Lindau at the age of almost 82.
Brüning's etchings, drawings, watercolors and oil paintings are now in the possession of numerous domestic and foreign museums and private individuals.
Max Brüning was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Works in museums
- House of German Art in Munich
- Hamburg Museum of Erotic Art (Erotic Art Museum)
- Delitzsch Museum
Literature and Sources
- Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General artist dictionary of the visual artists of the twentieth century. Volume 1: AD. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00730-2 , p. 332.
- Max Schmeling : Memories. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-36762-3 .
- Matthias Liebel: Luciano Castelli: 30 years of painting; the painterly oeuvre of the artist from its beginnings to the end of the 90s. Dissertation . Univ. Bamberg, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 23, 2015)
- ↑ (online) (accessed July 23, 2015)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brüning, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delitzsch , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1968 |
| Place of death | Lindau (Bodensee) , Germany |