alsysmaller (by Grossadmiral_Wig)
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Sadly, these proclamations reached only a very select audience: his wife (and muse), Marie, and a small circle of friends and relatives. As far as the outside world was concerned, Von Bruenchenhein’s plaque simply read: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Though undiscovered by the public until after his death, for forty years Von Bruenchenhein spent his time off from his bakery job immersed in the lives his plaque described: he painted apocalyptic landscapes and phantasmagorical beasts, sometimes using delicate brushes fashioned from Marie’s hair; he created miniature thrones and spindly towers using TV dinner chicken bones and model airplane glue; he molded botanically inspired ceramics out of the clay from his backyard, and fired them in his oven; he wrote poems and kept journals of his philosophical musings. He also lovingly and obsessively photographed his wife, to whom he dedicated all of his work, leaving us with a touching document of their playful, imaginative private world.Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Freelance Artist
Poet and Sculptor
Inovator
Arrow maker and Plant man
Bone artifacts constructor
Photographer and Architect
Philosopher.
Bakery Employee
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