Description
Jo Brenneis (pseudonym as artist: Jobrenn): *1910, Aschaffenburg; †1994, Hochheim am Main
Execution: oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions: 60 x 100 cm
Signed: on the reverse
Provenance: original work from artist’s estate.
Brenneis received painting lessons from the painter Marie von Fragestein in his childhood. He studied at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach am Main. From 1931 he worked as a freelance artist and was a member of the artists’ association Rote Reiter. In Switzerland he met Paul Klee, whose works impressed him. From this time on, he began to explore abstraction. Brenneis spent the Second World War as an employed draftsman at the MAN company in Mainz-Gustavsburg. Afterwards he worked again as a freelance artist and turned to abstract painting. He had exhibitions in Germany (Mainz, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Munich, Berlin and Karlsruhe), the USA (New York, Florida), Chile (Santiago de Chile), France (Paris, Nice), Italy (Genoa) and Luxembourg.
In 1953 Jo Brenneis made another trip to Spain/Mallorca where he came across the artist Joan Miró and spent a few days with him. In 1954 Brenneis traveled with his friend Feri Varga to Cagnes sur Mer in southern France. Through Varga he met Pablo Picasso. Cubist works were created.
In 1958 Brenneis founded the “Arbeitskreis bildender Künstler Rhein-Main” and the “Vereinigung bildender Künstler Rhein Main” and presented his works with them in the Palazzo del Parco in Bordighera. In the following years he had exhibitions in Dijon, at the Salon international de la grande des art, as well as in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Genoa and numerous other cities. In Germany in 1964 in Mainz his paintings were exhibited together with works by Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, HAP Grieshaber Erich Heckel, Pablo Picasso Heinz Trökes and other artists.
Until his last exhibition in 1969 he remained true to his artistic conception. His paintings, imbued with colorfulness and set in mature, creative power, are the expression of a life’s work.
