Bruno Lenz

Bruno Lenz (8 November 1911 – 16 June 2006) was a German painter and violinist. He was assistant concertmaster for 20 years of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Life Lenz came from a family of teachers. He was born in 1911 as son of the main teacher Otto Lenz in Bollenbach (today Haslach im Kinzigtal) in the Black Forest. He received his first violin lessons in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Lenz studied violin with Gösta Andrasson in Basel and with Georg Kulenkampff and Max Strub in Berlin. In 1936, he had his first exhibition of paintings at the . He also appeared as a soloist and chamber musician (Bruno Lenz Piano Trio, Lenz Quartet). In 1937, he took over the violin training classes at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg until he was called up for the Wehrmacht in 1940.

After the Second World War, in 1945, he went to Augsburg, where he became a member of the . In 1947, he took part in the Permanent Swabian Art Exhibition and in the Schaezlerpalais at the 11th Art Exhibition. In 1950, he exhibited at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich as part of "Augsburger und Schwäbische Maler". In 1951, he moved to Munich and became a member of the . His works were shown in the Haus der Kunst and in the . In 1957, he had a solo exhibition at the Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery. In 1959, he took part in the "Great Art Exhibition" at the Haus der Kunst. In 1983, he received an invitation to the Villa Massimo in Rome. He realised further exhibitions in Offenburg and Konstanz. As portrait painter, he painted public figures such as Franz Burda, Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Hans-Jochen Vogel, Georg Kronawitter, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Karl Rahner, Heinz A. Staab and .

From 1939, Lenz was married to the musician Anne-Marie Fiedler and had two children. Orphil-Verlag, Niebüll 2003,.