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.
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