Paul Bronisch
Paul Bronisch (born July 3, 1904 in Komptendorf , Niederlausitz , † November 15, 1989 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Bronisch studied from 1923 to 1926 at the Breslau Academy of Arts and Crafts under Theodor von Gosen and in 1927 at the Munich Art Academy under Bernhard Bleeker , on whose honorary dead he worked. After graduating, he went on a number of study trips and a longer work stay on the Côte d'Azur . He lived and worked in Berlin from 1932, where he received a special order for the Wehrmacht to care for graves in 1939 . Shaped by Bleeker's neoclassicism , he received a number of public commissions between 1933 and 1943. During the time of National Socialism he was one of the “preferred artists” alongside Josef Thorak and Arno Breker . After his studio was destroyed by bombs in 1943, he moved to Großgmain near Salzburg , where he worked until 1953. From 1954 to 1965 he lived and worked in Kassel and from 1965 in Munich .
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Bronisch's diverse life's work comprises - according to a fragmentary catalog raisonné - around 100 works. These included the two four-meter-high guard figures in front of the entrance to Paul von Hindenburg's crypt in the Tannenberg monument . The sculptures were made of granite and were made between 1935 and 1936. The memorial and the figures were blown up in 1945 when the Wehrmacht withdrew from East Prussia on the orders of Adolf Hitler . The figures are not preserved.
In 1940 two monumental figures, each 2.6 meters high, a man and a woman, executed in shell limestone , were created at Friedrichshain in Berlin ; Work on the Reichsbank headquarters, the Reich Aviation Ministry , and war memorials in Züllichau and Dyhernfurth are also known. The orders placed by Albert Speer around 1943 for the design of Wilhelmplatz in Posen and for 14 busts of famous German doctors for the Reichsärztehaus on the planned east-west axis in Berlin could no longer be realized. However, Bronisch also created portraits of Paul von Hindenburg (1934), Hans Pfitzner (1940) and the engineer Andreas Krämer (1941).
Annual exhibitions took place in the House of German Art in Munich with the highly regarded sculptures of Primavera and Eva and the portrait of Andreas Krämer.
Bronisch's sculpture “In memoriam” from 1941 was circulated on postcards during the Second World War and was the subject of a special postage stamp from 1942 .
After the war, Bronisch created not only other portraits, but also religious sculptures for churches as well as grave and memorials as well as the 6.5 meter high memorial of the city of Herford , as well as works for the Dortmund Union Brewery (various portraits), the Badische Beamtenbank Karlsruhe (relief plaster cut 20 m × 7 m and door handles made of bronze) and the Kaufhof in Cologne on Hohen Strasse . In 1971, he won the 4th prize for the 5 DM commemorative coin for Albrecht Dürer in competitions of the Federal Ministry of Finance , in 1973 the 3rd prize for the Basic Law commemorative coin and in 1976 the 4th prize for the Heinrich von Kleist commemorative coin.
In 1970 the Free State of Bavaria offered Paul Bronisch an honorary salary . In 1976 and 1977 Bronisch was guest of honor at Villa Massimo in Rome.
The bronze statue of Primavera (1955) is located in the entrance hall of the Marie-von-Boschan-Aschrott retirement home in Kassel . A few other works by Bronisch can be found in Kassel: The baptismal font in the Karlskirche , the boy looking at the stairs (featured prominently in the feature film Roses for the Public Prosecutor ), a sculpture in the outdoor area of the municipal clinics, a portrait bust of Paul Felix Aschrott in Dr.-Aschrott-Wohlfahrtshaus and a decorative aluminum wall in the Kasseler Sparkasse .
Verifiably in private ownership are: Two girls faces (around 1940), Bozetto of a beer coach (1952) and portrait head Carl Brügman (1951).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich , Edition 6, 1942, pp. 144–155.
- ↑ Culture Office of the City of Kassel (ed.): Art in public space, Kassel 1950–1991. Kassel 1991, page 16/17.
- ^ Galerie J. Möller, Dortmund, online catalog
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bronisch, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Komptendorf , Lower Lusatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1989 |
| Place of death | Prien am Chiemsee |