Peter Brüning

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Peter Brüning (born November 21, 1929 in Düsseldorf , † December 25, 1970 in Ratingen ) was an internationally recognized German painter and sculptor of the modern age . His works from the 1950s can be assigned to the Informel .

Life

Supported by his parents, Peter Brüning began to work artistically as a teenager. In 1950 he began studying with Willi Baumeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . He counted Willi Baumeister and Fernand Léger among his artistic models and dealt with Expressionism and Cubism in his early work before he found his own style. Drawings determined his early artistic work.

In 1951 he traveled to Paris for the first time with the Baumeister class. From 1952 to 1954, Brüning was a UNESCO scholarship holder in Soisy-sur-Seine , 30 km southwest of Paris, in France . During this time he traveled all over France and Spain, in particular he looked around in nearby Paris .

Since 1953 he was a member of the " Niederrhein artist group ", renamed " Gruppe 53 " in 1955 , together with Gerhard Hoehme , Herbert Kaufmann , Albert Fürst , Fritz Bierhoff and Rolf Sackenheim . Further members since 1955 were Karl Fred Dahmen , Winfred Gaul , Horst Egon Kalinowski , Konrad Klapheck , Heinz Mack , Otto Piene , Friederich Werthmann and Gerhard Wind . Italian, but above all French artists took part in the group's exhibitions alongside Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher as guests.

Peter Brüning became one of the most important representatives of German Informel in the 1950s and 1960s. He had been friends with the French art critic Pierre Restany since 1954 . His house on an idyllic lake in Ratingen, on the border with Düsseldorf, became a meeting point and contact point for many artists, collectors and other protagonists involved in the »art business«. In 1955 he was awarded the Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf.

In 1964, Brüning invented a new type of landscape painting , “legends” and “traffic landscapes ”. He began to paint with schematic symbols and pictograms , which he took from the symbolic language of cartography, later from traffic signs ("diversion signs"). This new visual language is also called: "Semantic Art".

The Autobahn memorial

From 1966 on, Peter Brüning discovered sculpture for himself and began to design sculptural objects. Spatial arrangements, such as the motorway memorial created in 1968 in the Ehrenberg car park (between the Wuppertal- Süd and Wuppertal-East motorway junctions ), are also part of his repertoire .

Brüning is one of the best-known and most successful artists in Germany with numerous exhibitions and awards at home and abroad. For example, he participated in documenta II, III and 4 from 1959 to 1968 in Kassel , and in 1961 he received the Villa Romana Prize.

In 1969 Brüning was appointed professor for free painting at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . He died on December 25, 1970 at the age of 41 in Ratingen.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953 Young German painter , Morsbroich Castle , Leverkusen / West German Artists Association , Hagen / Düsseldorf contemporary artists , Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf
  • 1956 Dusseldorf merchants collect modern art. Art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Dusseldorf / Gruppe 53 , Kunsthalle Dusseldorf / interferences Galerie Paul Facchetti Paris / Cinq abstraits rhénans , Galerie Grange Lyon / Deutscher Künstlerbund , Dusseldorf / Frankfurter Frühlingssalon Zimmergalerie Frankfurt / “Poème objet” gallery Parnass , Wuppertal / Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf
  • 1957 Peter Brüning - ciclo di giovani pittori e scultori tedeschi d'oggi, Galleria Apollinaire , Milan / Pentagone , Galerie Arnaud Paris / "Espoace Imaginaire" and "Ouverture sur le future" Galerie Kamer Paris / Salon Comparaison Paris / 12th Salon des réalités nouvelles , Paris / X. Premio Lissone Lissone , Italy / International Report , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Group 53 Krabbedans Eindhoven , Netherlands
  • 1958 Peter Brüning , Galerie Parnass , ( Rolf Jahresling ), Wuppertal / Peter Brüning , Galerie 22 , Düsseldorf / Das Rote Bild , Seventh Evening Exhibition Düsseldorf / Option 58 , Galerie Grange Lyon / Group 53 , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Suermondt Museum , Aachen / Pittori Tedeschi e Italiani Contemporanei , Galleria nationale d'arte , Rome and Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 1959: documenta 2 , Kassel / "Present day german painting" ICA London / "XI. Premio Lissone" Lissone / "euro-kunst-II" Copenhagen / "Première Biennale de Paris" Paris / "The new generation" Kunstverein Hannover / " Selezione dell 'XI. Premio Lissone "Galleria L'Attico Rome and Galleria la Bussola Turin
  • 1962: "Peter Brüning" Kunsthalle Mannheim , Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
  • 1964: documenta 3 , Kassel
  • 1966: "Peter Brüning, Pictures and Graphics", Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 1968: 4th documenta , Kassel
  • 1970: "Superländer and Signals", Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia Düsseldorf
  • 1971: “Super countries and signals. Works from 1964–1970 ”, Kunsthalle Mannheim /“ Peter Brüning. Drawings and Drafts ”, Buchholz Gallery Munich /“ Omaggio a Brüning ”, Galleria D'Arte Bologna
  • 1972: “Peter Brüning. Pictures, Objects, Drawings ”, Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn
  • 1974: Galerie Rothe Heidelberg
  • 1975: “Peter Brüning. Pictures, objects, drawings, graphics ”, Galerie Veith Turske Cologne / Galerie Müller / Wintersberger Cologne
  • 1978: "Peter Brüning", Galerie Elke and Werner Zimmer Düsseldorf
  • 1984 :: “Peter Brüning. From Informel to cartographic images and drawings ”, Galerie Elke and Werner Zimmer Düsseldorf
  • 1988: “Peter Brüning. Retrospective of his work ”, Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum in the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation Saarbrücken and Museum am Ostwall Dortmund /“ Peter Brüning. Objects ”, Marl Sculpture Museum Glaskasten /“ Peter Brüning ”Galerie Elke and Werner Zimmer Düsseldorf /“ Peter Brüning. Oil paintings and drawings ”, Galerie Heimeshoff Essen
  • 1989: “Peter Brüning. Pictures and Drawings ”, Galerie Nothelfer Berlin
  • 1990: “Homage to Peter Brüning on the 20th anniversary of his death”, Galerie Niepel Düsseldorf
  • 1994: “Peter Brüning. Pictures and works on paper ”, Galerie pro arte Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1997: “Peter Brüning. Works on Paper ”, Sprengel Museum Hannover Hannover , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresdner Schloß, Georgenbau Dresden and Museum der Stadt Ratingen - an exhibition by the Friends and Patrons of Ratingen
  • 1999: Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach / Bern / "Lust for Red" Gallery Schlichtenmaier Grafenau
  • 2000: Galerie Orangerie - Reinz, Cologne : "Peter Brüning - Pictures and Works on Paper"
  • 2001: Artist of the gallery since 1971 Galerie Gertrud Dorn, Stuttgart
  • 2003: “On the way to the avant-garde, group 53 artists” an exhibition by friends and supporters in the Museum of the City of Ratingen / Informel Gallery Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim
  • 2004: SOMMERLUST - KUNST-STÜCKE Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2005: glocal / 01 Artforum Palma / Andy's German colleagues Krypta 182 , Bergisch Gladbach / Schrift. Character. Geste , Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / An Arcadia of Modernism: Villa Romana , New Museum Weimar / Informal Tendencies Gallery Maulberger, Munich
  • 2006: VIP III. Arena of Abstraction , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen / Am Strom - Pictures from the Rhine , Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne / Impulse - Informel and Zero in the Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection - an exhibition by friends and patrons in the Museum Ratingen / Full House , Kunsthalle Mannheim / Drawings and graphics of the 20th century , Maulberger Gallery, Munich
  • 2006/2007: Informel - a world language , Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Grafenau
  • 2007: paint it blue , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen
  • 2007: Brüning - retrospective , Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art (MKM), Foundation for Art and Culture e. V., Duisburg (probably Brüning's most extensive solo show to date)
  • 2008: "Pop and the Consequences - Works from the Beck Pop Collection from the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen", an exhibition by friends and sponsors in the Museum of the City of Ratingen
  • 2009: "Peter Brüning on his 80th birthday", Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
  • 2010: “Le grand gesture! 1946-1964. Informel and Abstract Expressionism ”, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
  • 2015: “Peter Brüning. Paintings and works on paper ”, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf
  • 2017: “Peter Brüning. The Potential of Informel “, Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen
  • 2019: "Peter Brüning", Galerie Haas, Zurich / Switzerland as well as Galerie Michael Haas and Kunst Lager Haas, Berlin

Works in museums

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: Peter Brüning. Retrospective ; MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art. Edited by Marie-Luise Otten and Walter Smerling. With contributions by KO Götz, Peter Iden, Marie-Luise Otten, Dieter Ronte, Walter Smerling, Evelyn Weiss and Armin Zwei. Red. Marie-Luise Otten and Tina Franke; Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-87909-913-9
  • Marie-Luise Otten: Peter Brüning: the graphic work ; Cologne 1997 ISBN 3-87909-523-X
  • Exhibition catalog: Peter Brüning: Works on paper 1952 to 1970 ; Sprengel-Museum Hannover , Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 1997; ISBN 3-87909-544-2
  • Exhibition catalog: Peter Brüning. Objects , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl , 1988, with contributions by Marie-Luise Otten, Uwe Rüth and Klaus Honnef.
  • Marie-Luise Otten: Peter Brüning. Studies of development and work. Catalog raisonné (pictures, objects, drawings from the estate (not illustrated), sketchbooks, prints), Cologne 1988
  • Exhibition catalog: Peter Brüning, retrospective of his work , Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum in the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, Saarbrücken , and Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund , 1988, with contributions by Georg W. Költzsch, Manfred de la Motte, Pierre Restany, Marie-Luise Otten and Rolf-Gunter Dienst.
  • Exhibition catalog: Peter Brüning. Superländer and Signals , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf 1970, with contributions by Karl-Heinz Hering, Pierre Restany, Rolf-Gunter Dienst and Klaus Honnef.

literature

  • Württembergischer Kunstverein (publisher): painter and sculptor. Exhibition of the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart in the art building on Schloßplatz 29 March - 29 April 1956 , Stuttgart 1956, 2 pages without page numbers.
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel: documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Exhibition catalog for IV. Documenta (1968) in Kassel: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
  • Exhibition catalog: "Art of Informel. Painting and Sculpture after 1952", ed. by Tayfun Belgin, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Foundation Henri and Eske Nannen Emden, 1997, and Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz (Austria), 1998, Cologne 1997, with contributions from u. a. Ingo Bartsch, Andrea Firmenich , Claudia Posca, Christoph Schreier and with contributions from other authors on the artists.
  • "Informell", series of publications by the Museum am Ostwall, ed. by Heinz Althöfer: Vol. I (1999): "The beginning after the end", 1999, Vol. II (2002): "Encounter and change", Vol. III (2003): "Die Plastik - Gestus und Raum", Vol. IV (2004): "Material und Technik", Dortmund 1999-2004, with contributions (on Brüning) by u. a. Heinz Althöfer, Marie-Luise Otten and Claudia Posca.
  • Catalog book: "On the way to the avant-garde, artists of the group 53", an exhibition of the friends and sponsors of the Museum der Stadt Ratingen, ed. by Marie-Luise Otten, Heidelberg 2003, with contributions by Karl-Heinz Hering, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Marie-Luise Otten, Karl Ruhrberg and historical texts by Pierre Restany, Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen and John Anthony Thwaites.
  • Exhibition catalog: "Impulse - Informel and Zero in the Ingrid and Willi Kemp Collection", an exhibition by the friends and supporters of the Museum of the City of Ratingen, with contributions by Willi Kemp and Marie-Luise Otten, Ratingen 2006.
  • Exhibition catalog: "In the force field of signs. Peter Brüning for the eightieth", Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau 2010 with contributions by Marie-Luise Otten and Kuno Schlichtenmaier.
  • Exhibition catalog: " Informel. Pioneers and Border Crossers ", Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau 2010 with an essay by Bert Schlichtenmaier.
  • Nicola Carola Heuwinkel: Painting without borders. Art Informel in Germany . Kehrer, Heidelberg-Berlin 2010 (including chapter on P. Brüning: Elastischer Raum , pp. 205–215, as well as numerous illustrations)
  • Exhibition catalog: " Le grand Geste! 1946–1964. Informel and Abstract Expressionism ", museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf 2010, with contributions by a. a. Beat Wismer, Kay Heymer, Willi Kemp, Konrad Klapheck, Susanne Rennert and Marie-Luise Otten
  • Exhibition catalog: “ Peter Brüning. The Potential of Informel “, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, with contributions by Marie-Luise Otten, Ulrich Schumacher and Rouven Lotz , 2017
  • Exhibition catalog (German English): " Peter Brüning ", Galerie Haas, Zurich / Switzerland as well as Galerie Michael Haas and Kunst Lager Haas, Berlin, Zurich / Berlin 2019, with contributions by Marie-Luise Otten and Erika Schlessinger-Költzsch

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personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1970
Place of death Ratingen