1928. Mixed media/paper/wood, 43 x 33,5 cm, lo. middle monogr. B., on the reverse sign. and dat. G. Brockmann Ddf. 1928, titled 'Das eingebildete Huhn' and label of Kölnischer Kunstverein. - Exhibitions: The painting was exhibited: Bilderheimat. Kunst aus Schleswig-Holstein in einer Kieler Privatsammlung. Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek Kiel, 1996, cat. no. 110; Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck 1985, cat. p. 143; Kunstforening Oslo und Trondheim 1978, cat. no. 25; Kunsthalle Kiel und K.-E.-Osthaus-Museum Hagen 1976, cat. no. 126; SHLM Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig 1964, cat. no. 76; Kölnischer Kunstverein 1963, cat. no. 12.Gottorf, Schleswig 1964, Kat.-Nr. 76; Kölnischer Kunstverein 1963, Kat.-Nr. 12. - Literature: Bilderheimat. Kunst aus Schleswig-Holstein in einer Kieler Privatsammlung. Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek Kiel, 1996, cat. no. 110 and p. 136s. - German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. B. was trained as house painter, but began to work as autodidact artist and came in contact with the Dada group 'Stupid'. In 1926 he began studying at the Düsseldorf academy, where he got his own studio as early as 1927. He became master student of H. Campendonk in 1928. He worked as teacher at the academy since 1932, but was dismissed soon after the Nazis took over. In 1952 he settled in Kiel, where he taught at the Muthesius-Kunstschule since 1954 and became professor in 1975. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), New York (MoMA), Wuppertal (Von-der-Heydt-Mus.), Kiel (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (Schloß Gottorf). Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.