Maurice Braun
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Maurice Braun (1877-1941) was a Hungarian-American artist of the Point Loma community, noted for his landscapes of California. His family emigrated to New York City when he was a toddler.
Personal life
Maurice Braun was born on October 1, 1877, in Nagy-Bittse, Trencsén, in what is now Slovakia but was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary. He studied at the National Academy of Design and then under the American painter William Merritt Chase.
Braun died in San Diego, California, on November 7, 1941.
Artistic career
While in New York, Braun became known as a portrait painter.
Involvement with Theosophy and Point Loma
Additional resources
Articles
- Maurice Braun in Wikipedia.
- Holland, Nicole. "The Little-Known Drawings of California Impressionist Artist Maurice Braun". The Journal of San Diego History 57 no. 4. This biographical sketch has numerous illustrations and is available at this website.
- Kamerling, Bruce. "Theosophy and Symbolist Art: the Point Loma Art School". The Journal of San Diego History 26 no. 4 (Fall 1980).
- Petersen, Martin E. "Maurice Braun: Master Painter of the California Landscape". The Journal of San Diego History 23 no. 3 (Summer 1977). This excellent biographical sketch includes a list of known works by Braun.
- Braun, Maurice in Theosophy World.
Books and pamphlets
- Ashcraft, W. Michael. The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
- Greenwalt, Emmett A. California Utopia: Point Loma: 1897-1942 2nd revised edition San Diego, CA: Point Loma Publications, 1978.
