Max Bruning

Oberstdorf

Max Bruning's "Oberstdorf" is an original aquatint, drypoint engraving and drawing created by the German artist between 1940 and 1945. Oberstdorf is a small alpine town located on the German-Austrian border. This beautiful night scene is both a drawing and an engraving. Max Bruning used pastels throughout the entire composition with added highlights of china white on both the mountains and in the foreground stream. With such extensive drawing it is unlikely that Max Bruning created more than a mere handful of impressions of this original aquatint and drypoing engraving.

Oberstdorf

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Max Bruning (Delitzsch, 1887 - Lindau, 1968)
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01-	Haunted by Max Bruning	Original Colour Drypoint Engraving	c. 1925 - 1930	Signed by Max Bruning in pencil under the lower right plate-mark.	Sold
02.-	Oberstdorf by Max Bruning	Original Aquatint & Drypoint Engraving	c. 1925 - 1930	Signed, titled and annotated, "Original Radierung" (Original Etching) by Max Bruning in pencil under the lower right plate-mark.	Sold

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Title:	Oberstdorf
Artist:	Bruning, Max ( (Delitzsch, 1887 - Lindau, 1968))
Date:	c. 1940 - 1945
Medium:	Original Aquatint & Drypoint Engraving
Note:	Max Bruning: A master of many styles and artistic mediums, Max Bruning claims a major position in twentieth century German art. His first original paintings and prints were exhibited in 1910 and show stylistic elements of both Art Nouveau and Symbolism. After the end of the First World War (1918) he turned more to both Expressionistic and Art Deco concerns. At this time Max Bruning's art dealt almost entirely with the many elements of physical desire. During the 1920's his watercolours were reproduced as 'naughty' postcards and imagery for advertising. He dedicated his more serious talents, however, to the creation of original etchings and drypoint engravings, some of which were finished with extra layers of colours applied by hand.
	Max Bruning's eventful life is almost as compelling as his art. He attended the Leipzig Academy of Art at the young age of fifteen and studied both painting and printmaking techniques there under Alois Kolb and Peter Halm. Upon completion of his studies, Bruning contributed drawings to the periodical, Ex-Libris (1910). He also first exhibited his art in Munich during that year. In the First World War (1914-1918), Bruning was commissioned as a war artist. Shortly after the war ended he settled in Berlin. As the Weimar era became increasingly threatened by the rise of the Nazis, however, Bruning moved to the Tyrol Mountains in Austria. He remained there during the entire Second World War. In 1943, Allied bombing attacks upon Berlin destroyed most of the remaining original copper plates of Bruning's engravings. When the war ended in 1945, Max Bruning, a classified German citizen, was forced to leave Austria. He settled in Lindau in the following year and opened a studio. Most of his art from this period is landscape paintings and watercolours.
	Oberstdorf is a small alpine town located on the German-Austrian border. In all probability Max Bruning created Oberstdorf during the Second World War when he lived in Austria. This beautiful night scene is both a drawing and an engraving. Pastels are used throughout the entire composition with added highlights of china white on both the mountains and in the foreground stream. With such extensive drawing it is unlikely that Bruning created more than a mere handful of impressions of this fine landscape.
Edition:	Although Bruning did not number his engravings and etchings in specific editions, they were published in quite small numbers. As well, many impressions were destroyed as degenerate art when the Nazis took power. Thus his remarkable art is today quite scarce.
Size:	15 1/2 X 11 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon thick, wove paper and with full margins as created by Max Bruning in the 1940's. Signed, titled and annotated, "Original Radierung" (Original Etching) by him in pencil along the lower margin. Containing slight foxing and matte burning in the outer margins. As well, there are several tears (restored) along the upper plate-mark which do not enter into the actual image. Else a finely printed impression with full pastel drawing. Oberstdorf is a magnificent and quite possibly unique example of the famous art of Max Bruning.
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