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Valentin Gerhard Braun-Dusemond (1919, Cologne, Germany-1998, Taunton, Somerset, England) was a painter and art dealer in East Africa and Malta. He was an Abstract Expressionist in Africa and a Landscape Impressionist in Malta. Braun-Dusemond was born Gerhard Braun to Jewish parents in Germany. His escape from Nazi Germany to Kenya in 1939 allowed his creative genius to burst forth in the light and colour of Africa. Leaving Africa in 1963, he settled in Malta and took on the name of Dusemond. This was the name of the small village on the Mosel from which his father's family came. Mond was the maiden name of his mother who came from Werl in Westphalia. ==Early life and influences== Braun-Dusemond's father, Dr Siegfried Braun, was a school teacher in a Jewish School (die Schule Lutzowstrasse). It was Braun-Dusemond's encounters with the German Expressionist, Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) which first inspired him to become a painter. Meidner had come to Braun-Dusemond's home town of Cologne, in 1935, to take up a position as drawing master at the Jewish school, Javneh. Meidner’s enthusiastic response to the young man’s sketches and drawings encouraged him to develop his talent. Dr Braun's thesis was on the art theorist and critic, Konrad Fiedler (1841–1895) who, in his ''Kunstwissenschaft,'' created the theory of pure form, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Art. Since Fiedler believed that Works of Art are not created by feeling, he disregarded the importance of emotion in their appreciation. Braun-Dusemond’s instinctive disagreement with such theories – he was always a rebel - made him particularly receptive to the influences of German Expressionism with its emphasis on the supreme importance of the artist’s personal feelings. 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「VG Braun-Dusemond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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