Rudolf G. Bunk

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Rudolf Gerhart Bunk (born September 19, 1908 in Berlin ; † July 8, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and set designer. He belonged to the second generation of Expressionists.

Rudolf Bunk: Man in front of the Wall (1935/36) Gerhard Schneider Collection , Solingen Art Museum

Life

Rudolf G. Bunk began to study painting at the Berlin Academy under Karl Hofer and stage design at the School of Applied Arts under Harald Bengen.

From 1933/34 he worked as a freelance painter under Max Beckmann at the Städel in Frankfurt am Main . He took part in an exhibition of the Darmstadt Secession . The National Socialists regarded the exhibition as "art Bolshevik" and therefore closed it. Bunk then attempted to Switzerland to emigrate. He refused to " subordinate himself to the recipes for painting in New Germany ".

In 1936 he married Marianne Horl. Bunk was now trying to gain a foothold in Stockholm . There he worked more and more with the Matisse student Isaac Grünewald . In 1938, despite a petition to the Swedish King Gustav V , Bunk was expelled and returned to Berlin. In the petition of May 27, 1937, he undertook to “... to protest against the passage in the decision which - at a later date - is supposed to make it difficult or impossible for him to enter Sweden”, and added: “The undersigned stayed during made many friends during his stay here, artists who are among the best in Sweden (...). "

In 1937 his first son, Stefan, was born. Thereupon Bunk moved to the Rhön , and then in 1938 to Austria . In 1939 he moved to Split , where he stayed for another two years. Finally he had to flee to Trogir in 1941 . In the same year his son Stefan died in a swimming accident; his daughter Bojana was also born.

In 1943, Bunk joined Tito's "National Liberation Front" in Hvar . A year later, after Bunk was the only foreigner to be accepted into the culture section as an agitprop artist, the Bunks went to El Shatt in Egypt with 30,000 Croatian refugees . From 1945 Bunk was a set designer and director at the Volkstheater in Split. In the same year the second son Tomas was born. In 1953, Bunk regained (federal) German citizenship.

In 1957 and 1958 he staged Bertolt Brecht's " Threepenny Opera " , whom he particularly valued, "Closed Society" by Jean-Paul Sartre , " The Flying Dutchman " and " Hamlet " in Split. Between 1945 and 1958 he took part in around 120 performances as a set designer or director . In 1958 he was expelled from Yugoslavia following the recognition of the GDR . The Bunk family settled in Hamburg. There was a collaboration with the NDR . Bunk worked as an assistant to Caspar Neher and with Claus Peymann in the "Student Stage" for "Servants of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni and "Methuselah" by Yvan Goll .

Between 1959 and 1972, Bunk stayed in Split as a guest. He designed sets for ten plays. In 1963, Bunk was a co-founder of the Split Summer Festival.

In 1974, Bunk died of heart failure ( asthma ).

In September 2013, Bunk's written estate was transferred to the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His works are represented in the community foundation for ostracized arts with the Gerhard Schneider collection in the Solingen art museum .

His son Tomas is a cartoonist , painter and illustrator .

Exhibitions

  • September 20 - October 27, 2001: Land Register Hall, Hamburg
  • November 16, 2006: Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, Berlin
  • December 1, 2007 - September 1, 2008: some works from 1944 as part of the "El-shatt" exhibition in the Museum of Croatian History in Zagreb / ​​Croatia
  • September 14th - November 1st 2008: Retrospective exhibition on the 100th birthday of Rudolf G. Bunk in the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg
  • Berlin-Treptow
  • December 6 - December 23, 2012: Retrospective exhibition with works from 1938 to 1942, Glyptothek of the Academy of Arts in Zagreb / ​​Croatia

Honors

In 2003 the Split Theater named a stage designer award after him, which has been awarded annually since then.

Prize winners:

literature

  • Rudolf G. Bunk: 1908–1974 . Centrifugal force, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-9805175-2-7 .
  • Kay Rump (Ed.): The New Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Founded by Ernst Rump. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 .
  • Bojana Denegri: Image Search. In the footsteps of my father Rudolf Bunk . Gronewold, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-939624-01-2 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf G. Bunk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Bunk was neither a Jew nor a Communist, so he was able to travel and live in Germany.
  2. In photos or self-portraits, Bunk can be seen either with a brush or with a cigarette .