Werner Brenneisen

Hans Werner Brenneisen (born January 5, 1927 in Hanover ; † December 24, 2005 there ) was a German visual artist and glass painter .

Life

Werner Brenneisen grew up in the Hanoverian workers' district of Linden as the son of the glass painter Otto Brenneisen and his mother Franziska Brenneisen. At the age of 13, Kinderland was deported to Prague due to the war . At the age of 16 he was drafted as an air force helper and at 17 as a soldier on the Eastern Front. After a brief captivity from which he fled, he returned to Hanover in the summer of 1945. Werner Brenneisen saw himself as part of what the sociologist Helmut Schelsky defined as the skeptical generation .

Brenneisen experienced the exhibition “Liberated Art” in Celle in 1946 in such depth that he decided to become a free, visual artist. From 1946 to 1948 he completed his apprenticeship as a glass painter in his father's company in Spinnereistraße. From 1948 to 1952 he attended the Werkkunstschule Hannover and became a master student of Adolf Vogel . From 1953 to 1956 Werner Brenneisen drove to France, Belgium and Holland for studies on a scooter. He was particularly inspired by Chartres , the city of the Gothic cathedral with the shining windows. After returning home, numerous glass windows, wall designs and later also concrete reliefs and mosaics are created.

In 1959 he joined the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) and in 1961 created his first own exhibition on the subject of order and free play for its “Free Group”. In 1962, Brenneisen took on a multi-year teaching post at the Hanover University of Design. His students include a. Gerd Stallbaum and A. Wiard Wiards.

From 1970 Werner Brenneisen repeatedly visited the Vrije Academie in The Hague to give lectures and workshops on the relationship between “form and content”. In 1975 he moved his studio to The Hague in the Nieuwe Molstraat, where he worked until 2003. Until 1993 he taught drawing, painting and “vrije compositie” for the Vrije Academie. In 1978 Werner Brenneisen accepted a call from the Open Academie Amsterdam , for which he worked as a lecturer.

Work (selection)

Werner Brenneisen's work developed from expressionistic objectivity through abstraction and into cosmic depth. His pictures defy clear classification. "Something totally mysterious comes to light on Brenneisen's painting, a mysterious, atomic construction that corresponds to the planimetrically designed macrocosm." ( Gottfried Sello , in the "Directory of Visual Artists in Hanover")

Mouth-blown antique glass , black solder , tin and lead served as media for his church windows ; for his pictures modeling substrate, charcoal, finally canvas and acrylic .

Werner Brenneisen's glass windows are characterized by expressive surreal representations and subtle symbolism. They are set in self-cast and turned lead profiles from an old building school, but also in reinforcement iron and concrete. “The early medieval art of glass painting is the great model for him. Not that he copied her style - "the style must come from the zeitgeist" -; What impresses and spurs him on is the intellectual penetration of the early evidence of glass painting, the way in which they reveal the artist's devotion to the work, the opportunity to express ideas. ”(Hannoversche Presse, March 15/16, 1958 , P. 68)

In 1957 Werner Brenneisen won the anonymous tender from the State of Lower Saxony to rebuild the 4 × 14 meter east window of the Amelungsborn monastery church in Holzminden, which was destroyed in World War II . It is about 48 sequences from the announcement of the birth to the exaltation of Christ on the judgment seat.

Further church windows are made for the garrison church in Celle, the Jakobikirche in Hanover / Kirchrode, the Epiphany Church in Hanover / [Sahlkamp], the St. Michael Church in [Wietze] and the Gethsemane Church in Hanover / List. In 1959, Brenneisen designed the round window in the sacristy depicting the crucifixion of Christ for the market church in Hameln , as well as several ornamental windows for the western nave.

In 1979, Brenneisen had an apartment and studio at Allensteinweg 8 in Hanover.

literature

Directory of visual artists in Hanover; Cultural Office of the State Capital Hanover; Schlütersche publishing house and printer 1979
Werner Brenneisen, exhibition of the "Free Group" Hannover in the Association of Visual Artists; Künstlerhaus Hannover; Hanover 1956

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hannover, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 37

personal data
SURNAME	Brenneisen, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brenneisen, Hans Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German visual artist and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 2005
Place of death	Hanover

[Biographisches_Nachschlagewerk-1] Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hannover, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 37