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Before the First World War, Franz Dorsten Bronstert attended the higher mechanical engineering school in Hagen in Westphalia, where he passed the engineering examination. During the war he met Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen while he was a prisoner of war in England, in the Ripon camp in Yorkshire. During this time, he became a self-taught freelance artist. In 1921, together with Fuhrken and Wörlen, Bronstert founded the artist group “Der Fels”, which also included Reinhard Hilker and Carry Hauser. After the war he lived in Hagen, where he became acquainted with the circle around Karl Ernst Osthaus. During this time he met Alfred Kubin, with whom he was friends. In the 1920s, several folders with original prints by the rock artists were published, and Bronstert took part in exhibitions by Junges Rheinland and Hagenring. His artworks developed from radical expressionism via a realistic phase to, as he said, "purified impressionism". He found his motifs primarily in nature. Since he was not financially successful as an artist, Bronstert worked as an engineer in his trained profession, was the owner of patents and a board member of the VARTA Group.


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