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Adolf Bierbrauer ( * July 26, 1915 in Düsseldorf - September 2, 2012 in Ratingen ) was a German conceptual artist, painter and sculpturer. Well-known works by him are his hypnosis and somnambulistic images as well as his sculptures. == Life == Adolf Bierbrauer grows on the early years of his life with his sisters Marianne and Gisela at home in the Glücksburger street in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel . His father was manager of the ironworks Association in Düsseldorf. During his high school years Bierbrauer was going through a deep personal crisis. In 1925 he is made aware by his piano teacher about the philosophical work of Rudolf Steiner. As early as 1930 he produced his first still life. A year later, first figurative drawings were following. In the age of eighteen he appears publicly as a piano soloist. He also produced numerous portraits of people from the neighborhood. In 1934 he traveled to the Goetenaeum, Dornach (Switzerland) to study the works of Rudolf Steiner. In 1935, he takes up the study of medicine at the University of Marburg. In 1937 he moves to the continuation of studies to Freiburg. In 1939, he continued to study on short notice in Jena and at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. From 1940-1942 he does military service in France. 1942 Bierbrauer is called back for lack of troops doctors to Düsseldorf, to make there his medical state examination. He concludes with the study promotion in 1943. In January 1945 he was sent as a military doctor to the Eastern Front. He is captured in Wroclaw and was transportet to the Transcaucasus (Mingitschaur) to work as a roadbuilder and concrete worker in Russian captivity. During his Russian war imprisonment Bierbrauer painted on behalf of the management of the prison camp documentary images of geological investigations of the “Endmoraines”. Besides archaeological excavations of prisoners of war were made, where it was the Medes graves. Biebrauer opposes their supports and retains some drawings. Paint is forbiddden to him. He created order portraits for the guards. In 1949, he comes back to Düsseldorf and is a volunteer physician at the University Hospital Hamburg. From 1951 to 1953 he worked as psychotherapist at the 2nd Medical Academy in Düsseldorf, specializing in hypnosis treatments. The first hypnosis paintings emerged. His public position against electroshock therapy and insulin shock treatments has its release from hospital in 1953/1954 as result. In the summer semester, he attended the class "monumental painting and wall painting" under the direction of Otto Gerster at the Kölner Werkschulen. He applies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He is rejected. In 1954 he received the circular medical certificate to establish himself as a general medical practitioner. Bierbrauer now specializes on nervous disorders and psychosomatic disorders. He pursues its chosen path of therapy and continues with hypnosis. Since the 60 years the first somnambulistic paintings emerge. A heart attack in 1965, forcing Bierbrauer to give up his work as a doctor. From the year 1973, he declared himself as an free artist and starts in his house painting lessons for children. It later turns out to the first Waldorf Kindergarten in Düsseldorf. He is also active as a pianist at Waldorf schools. In 1974 he applies again at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he remains for nearly two years. At the same time he attends lectures of philosophy at Heinz Rudolf at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. From about 90 years, the trash art is created, such as Bierbrauer calls some of his work. 1998 Bierbrauer movend into by him initiated, anthroposophic oriented Heinrich-Zschokke Senior house in Düssseldorf Gerresheim. In 2000, his works have been presented to the general public during the presentation of his monography at the NRW Forum for the first time. Bazon Brock and Gabriele Lohberg, Director of the European Academy of Fine Arts Trier consider the introduction speeches.(1) Life in anthroposophic Senior home had become intolerable to him. When unannounced renovations in his care rooms artworks are destroyed.(2) He decided in 2006 to change senior house in the age of 91 years and moved to Kasierwerther Diakonie, Ratingen. In the year 2012 Bierbrauer personally wtnesses his hypnosis works in the exhibition "The Great," at the Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf. In the autumn of the same year Bierbrauer dies of heart failure.(3) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adolf Bierbrauer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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