Bründl Collection

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The Bründl Collection is a private collection of original clothing, hunting, war, jewelry and everyday objects from the Indians , cowboys and pioneers from the time of the Wild West .

description

The collection comprises over 1,000 exhibits and is privately owned by Heinrich Bründl. After the collection of the former judge and author Karl-Heinrich Gehricke ( Gevezin Indian Museum ), it is one of the most important collections of its kind in Germany.

In 1996, individual exhibits from Bründl's collection were shown as part of an exhibition by the American painter Michael Coleman in the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich and aroused the interest of the public. The exhibition catalog published on the occasion of a special exhibition in the German Hunting and Fishing Museum - at which the collection was shown in full for the first time in 1999/2000 - with German and English text accompanying the exhibits was also used by Richard Kinseher as a source for the book Der Bogen in Kultur, Music and medicine, as tools and weapons .

Since 2002, the collection has been open to the public in the form of a traveling exhibition entitled In the Empire of the Bison Hunters in several German museums. In February 2004, Bavarian television broadcast a report on Bründl and his collection in the series Between Spessart and Karwendel . In mid-2004, Claus-Dieter Steyer rated Bründl's importance in specialist circles in an article in the Tagesspiegel as higher than that of the Indian actor Silkirtis Nichols, alias "Buffalo Child". As a collector of Indian cultural goods, Bründl is also mentioned internationally in specialist circles.

As part of the traveling exhibition Mythos Wild West , the collection was presented in full again in 2009 at the Upper Rhine Fair in Offenburg . As part of the opening, the special exhibition was explained by the ethnologist Sonja Schierle, the head of the North America department and the museum education department at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart . The Badische Zeitung rated the collection on August 11, 2009 with the words: “The original documents in the Bründl Collection breathe the spirit of the lost culture of the North American Indians from 1850 to 1900, the trappers, cowboys and gold diggers. They effortlessly withstand a romantic, folkloric or weapon-related consideration. "

The collector Heinrich Bründl

Heinrich "Heinz" Josef Bründl (* 1948) became interested in culture when he became a member of the Cowboy Club in Munich when he was almost 20 years old. According to his own statements, watercolors and engravings inspired the trained butcher Karl Bodmer , who traveled with Maximilian zu Wied to North America from 1832 to 1834 .

He first traveled to the United States in 1974. The first original item of clothing in his collection was a pair of moccasins . He founded a company in Germany and specialized in importing Wild West articles and decoration work. He built true-to-original backdrops for Indian camps and saloons, furnished numerous hotels, amusement parks and trade fairs and founded the Western Park No Name City in Poing in 1987 , which he operated until 1995. He lives in Pliening .

Exhibitions and museum loans (selection)

literature

  • Wild West myth: the Bründl collection. Exhibition catalog, Winona, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 85 years Oberrhein Messe Offenburg The special show: Mythos Wild West (press release), Oberrhein Messe Offenburg, September 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b The Wild West is on the exhibition grounds: Look at the Upper Rhine fair , Badische Zeitung, August 11 of 2009.
  3. ^ Captured in the Wild West , Badische Zeitung , September 25, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b 61st consumer fair from Saturday: energy saving, animal show, concerts , East Hesse , May 14, 2009.
  5. ^ History , Museum Wiesbaden Natural History Collections.
  6. ↑ As part of the Upper Rhine Fair 2009 from September 26th to October 4th: Mythos Wild West - the new special show about Indians - Bison hunters - Cowboys - Soldiers of fortune - Desperados - The Bründl Collection , RegioTrends, March 30th, 2009.
  7. ↑ Richard Kinseher: The bow in culture, music and medicine, as a tool and weapon , BoD 2005, p. 245. ISBN 978-3-8311-4109-8
  8. ↑ Between Spessart and Karwendel: Wilder West in the Munich district Heinz Bründl and his Indian collection , Bavarian TV, February 2004.
  9. ↑ Claus-Dieter Steyer: Wild West in the Quiet East , Der Tagesspiegel, July 28, 2004.
  10. ↑ Larry Belitz : Captured Crow lance and beaded case: in a battle around 1840, a Lakota Sioux killed a Crow warrior and captured his lance with its beaded case as war trophies. . In: Whispering Wind, Issue 42, No. 4, March 2014.
    Note: The alleged origin of the collection items named there from the Linden Museum was corrected in July 2014 by Sonja Schierle, the head of the North American Department of the Museum. They were acquired by Bründl from a Mecklenburg collector. Furthermore, the lance described comes from around 1890.
  11. ↑ Edith Schreiner : Mayor Schreiner's speech at the opening of the Upper Rhine Trade Fair ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offenburg.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), September 26, 2009.
  12. ↑ Consumer fairs have a future " , Badische Zeitung, September 28, 2009.
  13. ↑ Team: Specialist presentations. Linden Museum, Stuttgart.
  14. ↑ Wild West at the fair , Baden Online , August 20, 2009.
  15. ^ "Ars terra incognita": First trade fair for non-European items , November 9, 2002.
  16. ↑ In the realm of the bison hunters: North America's fauna and its indigenous people , Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt, 2008.
  17. ^ The digging dogs , Bild der Wissenschaft , October 19, 2004.
  18. ^ In the realm of the bison hunters , Rosenheim locomotive shed.
  19. ^ In the realm of bison hunters , onlinestreet.de, 2002.
  20. ^ Indians of North America: The Heinz Bründl Collection , Museum Wiesbaden Natural History Collections.
  21. ↑ Jean-Loup Rousselot , Gerd Guck: Wakan Tanka: the Indians of the Plains and Prairies (exhibition catalog), District of Passau, 2002.
  22. ^ Wild West myth: the Bründl collection; Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Indians and the Wild West; June 5, 1999 - January 9, 2000; German Hunting and Fishing Museum Munich , Winona, 1999.