Bruno Héroux Explained

Louis Carl Bruno Héroux (20 December 1868 – 14 February 1944) was a German painter, graphic and typography and exlibris artist.

Life

Héroux came from a Huguenot family on his father's side family. He was born in Leipzig as the son of the engraver Louis Héroux and his wife Minna, née Zimmermann.[1] He received his artistic training from 1886 to 1892 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, where he devoted himself in particular to the study of xylography. The invention of the raster cliché rendered his original wish to work as a wood engraver futile. After a temporary job in the commercial sector, he first earned his living as an illustrator for fashion magazines and humorous magazines.[2]

From 1900, he worked as a freelance graphic artist and was already represented with three works at the International art exhibitions in Dresden the following year.[3] In particular, his etched nude ex libris and the use of the special graphic form of Remarquendrucke contributed to his popularity and reputation. As early as 1903, he was appointed as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. In 1908, he was awarded the title professor. From 1900 to 1910, he regularly exhibited his paintings and prints at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.[4]

In 1910, he compiled his first 200 graphic works in a catalogue raisonné. The self-published catalogue was published in a one-time edition of 500 copies, 100 of which were provided as a special edition with an etching and the signature of the artist. The successful draughtsman, who was appreciated and supported by contemporaries such as Max Klinger, was extremely productive. Over a period of eight years, for example, he produced 600 illustrations for the three-volume Handatlas of Human Anatomy by the physician Werner Spalteholz (1861-1940), published in Leipzig in 1913, which are regarded as masterpieces of anatomical drawing. Within two years he had also created the illustrations for the Atlas of the Anatomy of the Horse, which was published from 1901. In addition, he published several portfolios with drawings he had made on his travels through Italy and Russia. In 1913, he was the responsible artistic director of the art volume Das Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Weiheschrift 1813-1913), which contained, among other things, his portraits of the mayors of Leipzig Otto Georgi, Rudolf Dittrich and .[5]

For many years, Héroux was the chairman of the Leipzig chapter of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and an honorary member of the Leipziger Künstlerverein. He was also a member of the Leipzig artists' association Leoniden, founded by Edwin Bormann, Georg Bötticher and Arthur von Oettingen, for which he produced numerous graphic works.[6]

Shortly after a large part of his printing plates were destroyed by the Air Raids on Leipzig on 4 December 1943, the artist died of a severe internal ailment. His ashes were quietly interred.[7]

Héroux, whose household had been run by his half-sister Aurelie Geyer since his mother's death,[8] was from the beginning of the 1920s with Melitta Winkler,[9] married to a teacher for rhythmic education trained at the Mary Wigman School. His flat and studio were initially located at Johannisallee 11, and from 1913 he occupied the 4th floor of the Jugendstil apartment building at Scharnhorststraße 2 in Leipzig, which was built according to plans by Georg Wünschmann and artistically decorated by Héroux. He also owned the watermill in Machern, which he liked to use as a summer country house.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. August Ludwig Degener: Wer ist's? Degener, Berlin 1911
  2. https://www.invaluable.com/artist/heroux-bruno-7epmdz7jfq/ Bruno Héroux
  3. Official Catalogue of the International Art Exhibition Dresden 1901, Arnold, Dresden 1901,, No. 1165-1167.
  4. http://www.artnet.fr/artistes/bruno-heroux/ Bruno Heroux
  5. https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/bruno-heroux/artworks Brunon Héroux
  6. https://fr.artprice.com/artiste/98477/bruno-heroux Bruno Héroux
  7. After a busy life devoted to art, my dearly beloved husband, the painter and graphic artist Prof. Bruno Héroux, teacher at the State Academy, was released from his severe suffering on 14 February. In silent mourning Melitta Héroux in the name of all surviving relatives. Leipzig, S3, Scharnhorststraße 2. The cremation took place quietly at the deceased's request; please refrain from visiting him for condolences. Text of the obituary, In No. 49, 19 February 1944, .
  8. Bruno Héroux: Handwritten note to Mr Schulz-Euler dated 1 May 1910, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig: Stadt- und Landesgeschichte, Autographen, Korrespondenzen, A/1516/2010.
  9. Melitta Héroux, daughter of the saddler Carl Oskar Winkler and his wife Anna Maria, née Werner, devoted herself to expressive dance, her dance studio for training in ballet and artistic dance up to stage maturity still existed after the Second World War. Cf.: Leipzig Address Book 1949.
  10. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1027088939 Burno Héroux biography

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