Anton Braith

Anton Braith ( born September 2, 1836 in Biberach an der Riss, † January 3, 1905 ) was a German animal and landscape painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Life

Anton Braith was the son of a day laborer in Biberach, who ascended to the manager of a farm later. As a child he helped herding cattle. In 1851 he went on a scholarship in the Stuttgart Art School to study with Bernhard von Neher, Henry of Rustige and Heinrich Funk. After initial successes, he moved in 1860, together with his classmate Albert Kappis to Munich, where he met Christian Mali and made ​​contact with the artist colonies in Brannenburg, Pang, Aresing and on the woman in the Chiemsee.

In 1867 he traveled to Mali, Kappis and Carl Ebert to Paris. After successful exhibitions in Munich, Paris and Vienna acquired the Mali and he no longer existing house in Munich Landwehr Road 46, which was henceforth called "Swabian castle " and at times other artists such as Josef Willroider served as a studio. In 1874, he was with Mali on Lake Constance, in 1875 he bought a villa in Biberach as a second home. In 1884 he undertook a first trip to Italy, 1889 another. He also came in 1886 to North-West Germany.

When it came to the 1892 division of the Munich artistry to Braith not joined the Secession, but remained faithful to the Munich Kunstverein. In 1903 he was diagnosed with liver, undertook in 1904 a cure in Bolzano. Half a year before his death he went to Biberach to be nursed, where he died. He was not married and left his artistic legacy of the city of Biberach. This straightened 1906, the Braith Museum. Mali, who died shortly afterwards, could be induced also to bequeath his estate to the city. The friends were buried side by side in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Biberach.

Work

Braith is attributed to the School of Munich and was after the death of Friedrich Voltz as the leading German painter of animals, a rank which was later taken from him by Heinrich von reins. His subject was the livestock cattle, sheep and goat, rarely also poultry. He painted mostly in small, mixed herds and different races and placed so that the pre-modern animal husbandry is that actually was already considered obsolete in his time. This made but surely just his success in the age of industrialization, since the townspeople back longing for the unadulterated country life. Sometimes Braith also showed clearly alienated encounters of city people with the animals on the land.

His work is divided into four phases:

Braith painted for the sale of mostly large -format studio pictures that he composed from individual studies. Formats of this size have not been used before him for animal pictures. Besides the pictures of animals known from Braith small format landscapes and plant studies, which demonstrate partially developed outdoors and of great ability, but he probably was not in the trade.

Braith knew the animals because of his background well. He painted with great knowledge of animal anatomy and animal behavior. The strongest impressions made ​​those pictures of him, showing animals in greatest need and risk. Braith is therefore also attributed to the realism. It is, however, not be overlooked that his scenes are artificially composed and do not represent reality, but an artistically enhanced view of things. His work has many parallels with that of the other Askevold.

Among his most famous paintings include Disturbed rest, cows in the herb Acker ( 1868), A train oxen (1870, Kunsthalle in Hamburg), Grazing cows (1872 ), Homecoming end cattle (1873 ), bovine and Hirtenbube and The Flight of a flock before the storm, Cows in front of a destroyed by the mountain ridge ( about 1873 ), Return of the big flock of sheep from Alp (1880 ), stable fire ( 1882 ) and Mutual surprise (1893 ).

Honors

Braith was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The town of Biberach awarded him on 4 August 1891, the honorary citizenship.

Discount

The richly appointed studio spaces from Munich with the estates of Anton Braith and Christian Mali are now on display in Braith - Mali - Museum in Biberach. These translocated from Munich rooms were used but less the production of art, but rather the exhibition and sale. The actual work spaces are not preserved.

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