Wolfgang Bruhn

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Wolfgang Bruhn (born May 13, 1886 in Lübeck , † May 11, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German art historian .

Life

Wolfgang Bruhn was a son of the inventor Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn and came to Berlin with his family. After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1906, he began studying art and music history as well as philosophy in Freiburg, Halle and Berlin. The doctorate to Dr. phil. in Würzburg in 1921, with the inaugural dissertation: "The ornamentation in the Italian printed works of the early Renaissance, mainly in Venice".

Since January 1, 1922 - due to the tense financial situation of the museums, he was initially only a library administrator - at the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts, he was responsible for the Lipperheidesche costume library and its exhibitions; on June 1, 1934, in his role as head of the Lipperheide Costume Library, he became curator at the State Art Library in Berlin.

Wolfgang Bruhn was born in 1922 with Marianne. Rubner, a daughter of the Berlin physiologist Max Rubner , married. The marriage resulted in three children, including their daughter Johanna Quandt in 1926 .

Works

  • (with Max Tilke ) The costume work: A history of the costumes of all times and peoples from ancient times to modern times including the national costumes of Europe and the costumes of the non-European countries . Verlag Ernst Wasmuth Berlin, 1941, DNB 579263665 . New edition under the title Costume history in pictures: a history of costume ... Wasmuth, Tübingen, 1955, DNB 450651622
  • Monographs and Catalogs
  • The fashion picture . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, 1926, DNB 572545479
  • Women's dress in fashion and painting from the 18th century to the present day . Exhibition catalog at the Berlin Art Library, 1926
  • Fashion almanac. Fashion pictures from 4 centuries 1500–1900 . Neuerburg House, Cologne, 1933.
  • German cultural images: German life in 5 centuries 1400-1900 . Cigarette picture service, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, 1934 and 1936.
  • The fashion in 5 centuries (= series of Meyer's colorful ribbons). Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1936, DNB 572545460 .
  • (With Helmuth Skarbina) Costume and fashion. A colorful primer . Verlag Staackmann, Leipzig 1938, DNB 572545444 .
  • The dance in art. Exhibition in the Prinzessinnenpalais Berlin 1934/1935. Catalog
  • The first illustrated fashion journals. Vobach's women's newspaper, Leipzig, August 14, 1926

literature

  • Frank-Manuel Peter : The painter / The Painter Ernst Oppler. Berliner Secession & Russian Ballet / The Berlin Secession & The Russian Ballet. Wienand, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-86832-391-7 , pp. 9-10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , University (Würzburg) Philosophical Faculty, 1921
  2. ↑ F. - M. Peter: The painter Ernst Oppler (...) , p. 10, note 5.
personal data
SURNAME Bruhn, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1945
Place of death Berlin