Oscar Bronner
{{short description|Austrian newspaper publisher}}
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|birth_place = Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
|nationality = Austrian
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|occupation = Newspaper publisher, painter
|years_active = 1970s–present
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|website = {{url|oscarbronner.com}}
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Oscar Bronner (born 14 January 1943) is an Austrian newspaper publisher.
Biography
Bronner was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, on 14 January 1943. He is the eldest son of Austrian cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner. In 1948, at the age of five, he returned with his father to Austria. In 1970, Bronner launched the monthly economic journal trend and news magazine profil.{{cite book |last1=Stim |first1=JM |title=Despite Everything – The Oscar Bronner Story |date=2013 |publisher=redelsteiner dahimène edition |location=Vienna |url=https://www.kobo.com/at/en/ebook/despite-everything |accessdate=25 November 2018}}{{cite news|title=profil|url=http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/medienindex/media_articles/?frommedia=1572|accessdate=7 October 2013|work=Euro Topics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015224308/http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/medienindex/media_articles/?frommedia=1572|archive-date=15 October 2013|url-status=dead}} In 1974, trend and profil were sold and Bronner emigrated to New York, where he lived as a painter, having several exhibitions both in Europe and the US.{{cite news|title=Oscar Bronner, "Standard"-Gründer, im Porträt|url=http://www.kleinezeitung.at/allgemein/tribuene/3217119/gruender-maler-demokrat.story|accessdate=15 October 2013|newspaper=Kleine Zeitung|date=13 January 2013}} He returned to Vienna in 1986 and in 1988 founded the national daily newspaper Der Standard, of which he remains publisher.{{cite news|title=Standard Raiser|url=http://monocle.com/magazine/issues/21/standard-raiser/|accessdate=15 October 2013|newspaper=Monocle Magazine|date=21 March 2009}}
In 2008, Austrian journalists Klaus Stimeder and Eva Weissenberger wrote a biography on Bronner called Trotzdem – Die Oscar Bronner Story. The book was published in English under the title Despite Everything – The Oscar Bronner Story.
On his own webpage, Bronner announces: 2009 return to painting.{{cite web |last1=Bronner |first1=Oscar |title=Biography |url=http://www.oscarbronner.com/biography |website=Oscar Bronner |access-date=19 November 2022}}
In May 2014, Bronner left the board of Der Standard.{{cite web |url=https://www.diepresse.com/3805812/standard-oscar-bronner-verlaesst-vorstand |title=Oscar Bronner verlaesst Vorstand |website=Die Presse |access-date=18 November 2022 |language=DE |date=19 May 2014}}
Artist
Art historian Dieter Ronte writes about Bronner in 1985:{{cite web |last1=Bronner |first1=Oscar |author2=Dieter Ronte |title=Ausgangspunkt Landschaft|url=http://www.oscarbronner.com/texte/ausgangspunkt-landschaft |access-date=19 November 2022 |language=DE |date=1985}}
Oscar Bronner works in series. The series of flowers and men were followed by landscapes from early 1983 to mid-1984, which in turn preceded the portraits (Jakov Lind) and the nude paintings.
This can be easily understood from the artist's homepage
- Landscape Painting 1983{{cite web |title=Landscape Painting 1983 |url=http://www.oscarbronner.com/1983/ |website=Oscar Bronner |access-date=19 November 2022}}
- Portrait Painting 1984{{cite web |title=Portrait Painting 1984 |url=http://www.oscarbronner.com/1984/ |website=Oscar Bronner |access-date=19 November 2022}}
- Nude Painting 1985{{cite web |title=Nude Painting 1985 |url=http://www.oscarbronner.com/1985/ |website=Oscar Bronner |access-date=19 November 2022}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official|http://www.oscarbronner.com}}
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Category:Austrian publishers (people)
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Category:Austrian male painters
Category:21st-century Austrian painters
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