Wilhelm Braun (sculptor)
Wilhelm Braun (born October 7, 1880 in Uerdingen , † May 2, 1945 in Wanne-Eickel ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Braun attended the arts and crafts school in Aachen, where he studied modeling and drawing. In 1895 he began training as a sculptor with Carl Esser and in other studios. He studied with Karl Krauss at the Technical University of Aachen .
He got his first job in 1902 with Johannes Müller, a sculptor and modeller. His tasks were pre- and post-calculation, as well as draft. He attended the arts and crafts school again from 1906 to 1909, then the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf until 1915. After six semesters, he was appointed a master student. From then on he was able to carry out orders in his own studio. The period from 1915 to 1920 is not documented. In 1920 Braun was employed as a drawing teacher at the commercial advanced training school in Dortmund-Hörde. Also this year, Braun passed the final exam at the municipal trade teacher seminar in Düsseldorf. From October 1, 1924, Braun was a trade teacher at the trade school in Wanne. From May 1925 he was named trade professor.
With the establishment of the local group Wanne-Eickel-Röhlinghausen of the Association of Westphalian Artists and Art Friends in April 1924 and the establishment of the Wanne-Eickel Art Association in October of the same year, group exhibitions in which Braun participated took place regularly. He headed the Guild of Working Artists Wanne-Eickel , founded in May 1934 . In 1936 he, meanwhile also a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , was elected deputy chairman of the art association.
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Wilhelm Braun worked as a sculptor. He worked on public commissions, private works and participations in exhibitions, such as the bust of the daughter Lotte (1920), Gänsehirt (1921), the bust of Hitler (before mid-July 1936), Bergmann (before mid-June 1937). Sacred works such as Christ on the cross (before July 1925) were also made by him.
His best-known work is the three-men-corner from 1927, which depicts railroad workers, inland boatmen and miners as a symbol of the Wanne-Eickel economy. Originally located on the north side of Wanner Hauptbahnhof, between the main street underpass and the station building, after restoration, they are now at the local history and natural history museum in Wanne-Eickel . Immediately in front of the station building there are now replicas.
Ten stone symbols for the former Wanner economic sectors of mining, industry, agriculture, shipping, railroad, the coats of arms of Bickern and Crange as well as a plaque of the bailiff Friedrich Weiberg as the spiritual father of the cemetery were located on the entrance buildings of the Wanner forest cemetery built in 1924 just beyond the city limits after Herten , also created by Wilhelm Braun, four of which have survived.
The miners' glow stands for mining,
the winged track bike for the railroad, and
the sailing ship for shipping on the canal.
Reeds on the coat of arms of Bickern.
During the Nazi era , many of his works that corresponded to the attitudes of the time met with a positive response. The Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde of July 13, 1936, on the occasion of a Wanner exhibition organized by Braun, praised the "massive peculiarity" of his Hitler bust, the "powerful and wide-legged plasterer depicted with the ram and the steely figure of the horse-tamer, to which the delicate, the austere grace of Nordic women stands in delightful contrast ”.
literature
- Manfred Hildebrandt: Wilhelm Braun. An almost forgotten artist. In: Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV (Hrsg.): Collectors, Artists and Authors - Forays through cultural history through Wanne-Eickel and Herne. Der Emscherbrücher 2003/2004, Volume 12. Herne 2003, ISBN 978-3936452082 , pp. 53-60.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Weiberg: 50 years of office tub . Self-published, Wanne 1925, p. 147.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braun, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uerdingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1945 |
| Place of death | Wanne-Eickel |