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The basic question “Where do I come from, where am I going?” is reflected in many of the works of the Münsingen painter and sculptor Iring de Brauw.
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The Münsingen painter and sculptor Iring de Brauw is awarded the District Office's Letter of Cultural Honor for his life's work.
Ambach - At the age of 85, the painter and sculptor Iring ten Noever de Brauw, who lives in the Münsinger district, receives the cultural honor for his life's work.
Associated with the prize is an exhibition in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district office, for which the artist has selected a cross-section of his work.
He painted his man-sized wooden sculptures for reasons of space; the ornamental acrylic paintings and the most recent black-and-white drawings of cathedrals and ships can be seen in the original.
Art and life as a unit: Münsingen culture prize winner Iring de Brauw (85) in a portrait
With the latter, Iring de Brauw comes full circle.
Born in Ambach in 1938, he had to flee with his parents to his father's homeland, the Netherlands, a year later because of the outbreak of the Second World War.
In Rotterdam he grew up with his brother next to a shipyard.
He was fascinated by ships from an early age, as were cathedrals.
“As a child, I wanted to be a church builder or a ship designer,” he says.
As a teenager he had nothing to do with art - “I couldn't draw or anything else”.
That changed when he came across Wassily Kandinsky's late work.
As a good math student, de Brauw says he was drawn to the geometric shapes.
After working for a while, first in the hotel industry and later in the printing industry, he met the Esslingen glass painter Professor Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen in 1959 and was trained by him.
From 1961 he studied at the Munich Art Academy under Josef Oberberger and at the Academy in Stuttgart.
In 1977 he received a teaching position at the University of Education in Esslingen, and from 1980 to 1982 he taught at the Bayerwald Academy.
Since 1982 he has lived in the hamlet of Luigenkam near Ambach, idyllically located above Lake Starnberg.
His home is both a studio and an exhibition space, packed with works from half a century of creativity.
The artist says that vacations in Antibes in the south of France and on the island of Bali inspired him.
But he draws his ideas from his rich inner life: “I only paint and sculpt based on intuition.”
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The artist's motto: “Where do I come from, where am I going?”
The fundamental question of metaphysics and his personal motto “Where do I come from, where am I going?” is reflected in almost all of his sculptures and pictures.
The German-Dutch artist worked a lot with acrylic paints or oil pastels: landscapes, ornamentals, room-filling paintings in the style of Greek wall paintings and cycles in which he depicts the incarnation or primal human feelings on the border of the abstract.
His “jug pictures” are filled with the important things in life.
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He also used to make wooden sculptures with a strong African influence and a mythological background.
“I had a lot of phases and was always creative,” he says.
His current style is churches drawn in fine black lines, from which sometimes ships emerge, sometimes human heads, animals or other things.
“While walking by Lake Starnberg, I discovered a huge spider web stretched from tree to tree.
The sun shone on it and I was fascinated by this delicate work,” says the 85-year-old.
Fascinated and inspired.
The Ammerland sculptor Ernst Grünwald, a long-time colleague and friend, suggested de Brauw for the cultural honor letter.
The honoree was “very happy when I received the news about the award from the district office.”
He is allowed to show his works at the authority for three months so that everyone can see for themselves the artist's extraordinary versatility.
TANJA LÜHR
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