FRANZ BRONSTERT* (Dorsten 1895 - 1967 Freudenberg)
Two heads, 1921
linocut/paper, 25,1 x 38,2 cm
signed F. Bronstert, dated 21
titled Zwei Koepfe Probedruck, estate stamp Carry Hauser

ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200
STARTING PRICE °€ 100

Franz Bronstert was born in Dorsten, the son of the drawing and music teacher Bernhard Bronstert and his wife Luise (nee Breil). Before the First World War, Bronstert attended mechanical engineering school in Hagen. In the prisoner of war camp Ripon, Yorkshire, first artistic activity and meeting with Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Woerlen. The contacts led in 1921 to the founding of the artists' group "Der Fels", which Reinhard Hilker and Carry Hauser (Hagenbund) also joined. After the war, Bronstert settled in Hagen and established contacts with the circle around Karl Ernst Osthaus, especially Christian Rohls. A close friendship with Alfred Kubin also developed. Active exhibition activity with the "Fels" from 1921 to 1927 from Kiel to Vienna. During this time publication of eight folders with original prints by the rock artists. Participation in exhibitions of the "Junges Reinland" and in the Hagenring group exhibition in the Osnabrueck Museum in 1929. Bronstert developed from the radical Expressionism of the early 1920s via a realistic phase to "purified Impressionism". He usually finds his motifs in nature. Bronstert painted in oil, drew and mastered other techniques, but mainly worked in watercolour. Bronstert meanwhile married Maria Regina Hedwig Schlickum, a relative of the landscape painter Carl Schlickum and the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath. Bronstert made a career in his learned profession, which allowed him to be financially independent. He was the owner of several national and international patents and a technical board member of the VARTA group. From 1940 to 1943, Bronstert was represented with twelve paintings at the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich. Works in: Schneider Collection; Museum Baden, Solingen; Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Museum Schloss Moyland, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich; Art collection of the city of Soest, City Gallery Luedenscheid, City Museum Iserlohn.

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