{"id":3490,"date":"2016-03-30T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=3490"},"modified":"2016-09-07T21:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:36:25","slug":"eugene-von-bruenchenhein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/?page_id=3490","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Von Bruenchenhein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910-1983) was born\u00a0in Marinette, WI, but spent much of his adult life in a small house in Milwaukee. \u00a0He created art there for 40 years amounting to several thousand works in various media. \u00a0After Eugene died, the work was brought to the attention of Milwaukee Art Museum director Russell Bowman. \u00a0Besides apocalyptic oil paintings, ceramic crowns and vessels, he and his wife Marie (Eveline Kalke) collaborated on photographs that staged Marie in provocative poses and costumes. \u00a0Eugene had met Marie at the Wisconsin State Fair in 1940. \u00a0They married in 1943 and were together until Eugene&#8217;s death in 1983. \u00a0Now internationally famous, EVB (as he is known) has had many museum exhibitions and was included in the 2013 Venice Biennale. \u00a0The John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan owns and has conserved much of his work. \u00a0Portrait Society is pleased to present 12 black and white vintage photographs of Marie, printed by Eugene, and one hand-tinted original portrait. \u00a0The work is\u00a0courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/EVB-marie-in-swimsuit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3634\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/EVB-marie-in-swimsuit.jpg\" alt=\"EVB, marie in swimsuit\" width=\"314\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/EVB-marie-in-swimsuit.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/EVB-marie-in-swimsuit-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910-1983) was born\u00a0in Marinette, WI, but spent much of his adult life in a small house in Milwaukee. \u00a0He created art there for 40 years amounting to several thousand works in various media. \u00a0After Eugene died, the work was brought to the attention of Milwaukee Art Museum director Russell Bowman. \u00a0Besides apocalyptic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3490","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promega-artshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}