This is what makes the new Art Preserve unique-and astonishing. “A vast majority of his output is reunited here in a space mirroring the diminutive size of the original Von Bruenchenhein home.” Recreation of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s basement at the Art Preserve of the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, July 2, 2021.
In 2019, the Center acquired 8,300 additional objects from the artist’s estate. The Arts Center acquired more than 6,000 pieces of art-its first acquisition-from Marie,” explains a sign at the Art Preserve.
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“Kohler recognized that the full power of Von Bruenchenhein’s expression could be realized only if the work stayed together. Enter and you find recreated tableaus of his basement and attic, as well as selections of his chicken bone towers and thrones, photos of Marie, ceramic crowns and vessels, and visionary paintings. Those Von Bruenchenhein concrete heads lean against the exterior with their stern, ancient-seeming expressions. One of the first exhibits you encounter on the first floor is a facade of a house inspired by the Von Bruenchenhein home. This is the driving philosophy behind the new Art Preserve of the Kohler Arts Center-“the brainchild of Ruth DeYoung Kohler II”-which opened on June 26, 2021, in Sheboygan, as a satellite campus to the Arts Center. (©Greg Cook photo) Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s thrones made of chicken bones at the Art Preserve of the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, July 2, 2021. I knew it was going to take a lot of work, and I didn’t think anyone else would do it.’’ Recreation of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s attic at the Art Preserve of the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, July 2, 2021. ”And it hit me that we had to do something to preserve it. ”It was just incredible,” Kohler told The New York Times in 2009. A gold-hued aluminum plaque hung above the kitchen door, inscribed with the message: “Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / Freelance Artist - / Poet and Sculptor - / Innovator - / Arrow maker and Plant man - / Bone artifacts constructor - / Photographer and Architect - / Philosopher.” Paintings leaned against walls-visions of nuclear apocalypse, rocket ships, visionary cities. Piled on tables were pin-up photographs he had staged of Marie. He had also constructed chicken bone towers that rose 5 feet high. Suspended from the ceiling moulding were miniature thrones that Von Bruenchenhein had assembled from the bones.
Kentucky Fried Chicken boxes filled with chicken bones were stacked in the foyer. Lines and dots loosely spraypainted across the door resembled flowers. The couple’s small house was painted in a patchwork of bright turquoise, yellow, pink, blue, green and red. Von Bruenchenhein had worked in a flower shop and then a bakery. ”It was probably the most moving thing that ever happened to me,’’ Kohler told The New York Times in 2009, “entering his little cottage surrounded by these concrete, high-relief heads that stood like sentinels around this clapboard house.” Installation evoking Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s home at the Art Preserve of the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, July 2, 2021. They took her to see the man’s home in nearby West Allis, Wisconsin. Milwaukee museum staff passed on Von Bruenchenhein’s art, but mentioned it to Kohler, the director of the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, who happened to be serving as an art juror for the Milwaukee museum. Eugene had recently died and a friend, a retired police officer, brought samples of Eugene’s art to the Milwaukee Art Museum hoping to sell the pieces to help support Marie financially now that she was on her own. Ruth Kohler first heard about the home of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife Marie in January 1983.
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