Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott

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Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott, self-portrait

Hermann Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott (born June 20, 1908 in Weißenfels , † May 23, 1984 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Rudolf Brückner attended the Reform-Realgymnasium in his home town and then completed a commercial apprenticeship. When his mother married Adolf Fuhlrott in 1921, he assumed the double name Brückner-Fuhlrott. Around 1929/30 he decided to work as a visual artist. After his marriage in 1933 and a brief incarceration in the Hohnstein concentration camp , he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1935 to 1939 . As a freelance artist, he created, among other things, a sgraffito frieze for the town hall of his then home town of Neustadt in Saxony . In World War II wounded, he spent the time from 1943 until the war ended in a military hospital in Meissen .

After the war, Brückner-Fuhlrott lived in Weißenfels from 1946 and in 1972 moved to Ahrenshoop, known for its artists' colony, where he had been a regular guest since the 1950s.

From 1950 onwards, Brückner-Fuhlrott's artistic work was mainly devoted to religious subjects, especially as commissioned art for the Catholic Church , to which he belonged after his conversion in 1952. About 100 Catholic churches in the GDR area were furnished with his altarpieces, sculptures of saints, Stations of the Cross or church windows. With Friedrich Press and Hildegard Hendrichs , he was one of the most productive religious artists in the GDR, but was largely ignored by the official cultural scene.

In 1980 he was awarded the papal cross of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for his services .

Brückner-Fuhlrott's estate is in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . His daughter, the politician Elke Maes , is also an artist.

Works (selection)

Marienfigur
St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • Catholic branch church Neukloster : altarpiece ( Assumption of Mary into Heaven ) in sgraffito , window with chorale notes from Salve Regina, cross-way design, small cross, 1967.
  • Sternberg church: altarpiece Last Supper. , Stained glass window, tabernacle, figure of Mary, stations of the cross, standing cross.
  • Bad Doberan: Madonna, stained glass window.
  • Dreilützow : pilgrimage chapel and church. Madonna, altars, tabernacles, images of Christ and saints, stations of the cross.
  • Gadebusch: Bishop's Chapel, complete furnishings.
  • Hagenow: cemetery, Christ sculpture. Church, stained glass window, Elizabeth figure.
  • Ludwigslust: Mary with the baby Jesus, Joseph the carpenter.
  • Schwerin: Episcopal office, sculptures, portraits.
  • Parish church St. Franziskus Halle an der Saale : Altar cross
  • Parish church St. Peter and Paul Naumburg an der Saale : altar mosaic ( Ascension of Christ ), stained glass window, stations of the cross, figures of the apostles and candlesticks, 1962
  • Parish church St. Antonius Babelsberg : altar sculptures Maria and St. Antonius , Way of the Cross, Holy Spirit window baptistery, 1963
  • Church of St. Bonifatius Bad Dürrenberg : glass concrete window
  • Church of the Assumption of Mary Bad Blankenburg : Altarpiece
  • Holy Cross Church Waren (Müritz) : crucifixion group, figures of saints (Maria, St. Josef, St. Antonius, St. Franziskus) 1958, resurrection window on the west gable 1969
  • Catholic Church Heiligste Dreieinigkeit, Dessau-Süd: Altarpiece (fresco), stations of the cross and figure of St. Michael on the outer facade (1954)

Exhibitions

  • Ahrenshoop, Kunstkaten 1998
  • Weißenfels 2009

literature

  • Oswin Hantzsch: The sgraffito frieze by the painter and sculptor Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott on the town hall of Neustadt in Sachsen , Neustadt in Sachsen, 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the life of Rudolf Brückner Fuhlrott. (No longer available online.) In: Online edition. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mz-web.de
  2. ^ Brückner-Fuhlrott about himself. (No longer available online.) In: Online edition. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 16, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mz-web.de
  3. ↑ Weißenfels artist returns to the city on the Saale. In: online edition. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 16, 2009, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Return to the Saale was successful. In: online edition. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 13, 2009, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  5. ^ Elke Maes: Leaflet Catholic churches in the Sternberger Seenland nature park . Neukloster, August 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Brückner-Fuhlrott, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Hermann Rudolf (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1984
Place of death Ahrenshoop