Max Bruhn (publisher)

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Max Bruhn (* 1895 ; † 1967 ) was a German publisher, merchant and art dealer.

Life

Max Bruhn was the son of the physician and medical adviser Christian Adolf Bruhn and his wife Helene Bruhn, née Seitz. His sister Maria was married to the book designer and typographer Henri Friedlaender . He was married to the kindergarten teacher and teacher Martha Elisabeth Bruhn, née Witt, whom he had known since childhood, and the father of the composer Christian Bruhn and a daughter.

Bruhn was initially an art dealer and was friends with August Macke and Edwin Scharff . He also put Richard Haizmann in contact with a foundryman who made bronze casts of his “lying cow” (1925). Bruhn, who also worked as a sculptor, founded the Richard Haizmann Circle of Friends in 1929 together with Emmi Ruben and Agnes Holthusen.

From the 1920s he was in charge of Parus-Verlag, founded in 1908 in Reinbek near Hamburg . Bruhn was a member of the "Hamburg-Altona Booksellers Association". During the time of National Socialism , Max Bruhn also ran his Parus bird and plant protection business on the ground floor of his house . During the Second World War , he first served in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer and finally in an outpatient company in Lienz ( Lienz reserve hospital?), While his mother stayed with the children in Austria , where she was the teacher of a primary school in Bad Kleinkirchheim . He experienced the surrender in Aalen .

After the end of the war he made his way to northern Germany and applied to the British military government for permission to continue his publishing house. He published the first book The Golden Thread. Four legends by James Krüss , who lived with him for a short time after the Second World War, books by Robert Brendel , Wilhelm Eigener , Hedwig Rohde , etc. Until the currency reform in 1948 , the publisher was able to hold up well, but was unable to compete with the larger publishers due to lack of capital so that Bruhn founded the Pax bookstore as a department of his Max Bruhn GmbH . When the former Wentorf neighbor Alfred Vivanco , later Vivanco-Luyken, moved to Lochham near Munich in 1956 , where James Krüss had also lived since 1949, Max Bruhn and his family followed suit. In 1959, Max Bruhn was deleted from the commercial register as the license holder of Parus Verlag.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Bruhn 1895-1967. In: Claudia Gabriele Philipp, Horst W. Scholz: Photographic perspectives from the twenties. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , 1994, p. 196. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ^ Christian Bruhn: Marble, Stone and Lovesickness. My world is music. Memories, thoughts and feelings written down by himself. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, pp. 21-22, 114.
  3. ↑ Christian Bruhn † ; Obituary in: Zentralblatt for the entire tuberculosis research , 28 (1928), p. 143. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Through dark Germany. Gerhard Marcks - Correspondence 1933 to 1980. EA Seemann, 1995, p. 90.
  5. ^ Kurt Löb: Exil-Gestalten. German book designer in the Netherlands. 1932-1950. Gouda Quint, 1995, p. 101 f.
  6. ↑ Send manuscript. Special Broadcast: Christian Bruhn on March 9, 2007. xinemascope - The cinema magazine on Radio X .
  7. ^ Richard Haizmann (1895–1963). Lying cow, 1925. State museums in Berlin .
  8. ↑ Maike Bruhns : Art in the Crisis. Volume 2. Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 171.
  9. ↑ Archives in inventory 21765: Parus-Verlag Max Bruhn, publishing house and range, Reinbek , Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig in the Saxon State Archives .
  10. ↑ a b Max Bruhn. In: Book trade in Hamburg. A commemorative publication on the occasion of the founding of the Hamburg-Altona Booksellers Association a hundred years ago. North German Publishers and Booksellers Association, 1960, p. 78 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  11. ^ Christian Bruhn: Marble, Stone and Lovesickness. My world is music. Memories, thoughts and feelings written down by himself. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, pp. 21-22.
  12. ^ Christian Bruhn: Marble, Stone and Lovesickness. My world is music. Memories, thoughts and feelings written down by himself. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, pp. 38, 48-49.
  13. ↑ James Krüss. Literature portal Bavaria .
  14. ^ Christian Bruhn: Marble, Stone and Lovesickness. My world is music. Memories, thoughts and feelings written down by himself. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, p. 49.
  15. ^ Christian Bruhn: Marble, Stone and Lovesickness. My world is music. Memories, thoughts and feelings written down by himself. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, p. 86.
  16. ^ Parus Verlag Max Bruhn. In: Klaus Doderer (Ed.): Between rubble and prosperity. Literature of the youth 1945-1960. Institute for Youth Book Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , Beltz, Weinheim 1988, p. 294. ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Bruhn, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, merchant and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1967