Von Brunn's autobiography.

[rug]

The von Brunn/Wenneker families migrated from Germany/Austria c. 1845, settling in St. Louis, Missouri.

James von Brunn's father, Elmer, was superintendent of Scullin Steel Mill. During WWII he designed, and supervised a 40mm shell plant for the U.S. government in Houston, Texas. His wife Hope Wenneker von Brunn, educated at Hosmer Hall, was a homemaker and accomplished pianist. They had two children, James (JvB) and Alyce. The family spent summer months at Piasa. Illinois, where JvB roamed the limestone bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, hunted snakes and turtles in the willows along its banks, and collected Indian artifacts. His grandmother Wenneker (grossemutter) gave him an oil paint set for his 7th birthday. His inspiration to paint came from Scribner Illustrated Classics and painters such as Pyle, Schoonover, and Wyeth. But his painting, because of his love of athletics, was confined to days of inclement weather. During the hiatus between high school and college he hitchhiked through Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Q1MJwpKEflIJ:www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx%3Fartist%3D120881+advertising+%22James+Von+Brunn%22&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Gets much, much weirder.

[Taverner]

1. A painter, just like Hitler

Maybe Eddie Izzard was right?

[El Supremo]

2. Did he torture frogs like *?

[rug]

3. Didn't say. but he ended it with this:

"In small towns across America the blind and cowardly scramble, push and shove getting and spending while their homes are burning and their complexions grow progressively darker.

"Von Brunn paints and plots."

[malaise]

4. Here endeth his plots n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Sounds like a paranoid whack-job.

:crazy:

[noiretextatique]

8. gmta

:hi: a total lunatic...with delusions of grandeur :crazy:

[MADem]

6. What a fucking NUTBALL!!!!!

Fearing for his family's safety, JvB returned to Maryland where he devised a scheme to expose his enemies. He planned and conducted a legal, non-violent, citizens arrest of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in Washington, D.C. He accused them of treason. The FED, a private corporation, conceived by the Rothschilds, had financed the construction of manufacturing plants in the USSR that produced war materials used against U.S. forces fighting in Korea and Viet Nam. Money is the source of all power. JvB was convicted for attempted kidnapping, robbery, burglary, carrying a weapon (not loaded), etc, in a kangaroo court. JvB served 6.5-years of an 11-year sentence. While in federal prison JvB designed brochures, etc., and painted three large murals (18 x 35) and many portraits.

In 1989 JvB was released from prison with $50. and shoes 2-sizes too big. His sister Alyce, dependable and staunch as a rock, provided him a place to reside in her duplex. His wife remarried. His two sons live out-of-state but telephone frequently and visit from time to time. Pusillanimous Eastonians, hiding behind political correctness refuse to display JvB's paintings, nor will they engage in business with him. However, von Brunn continues to exhibit under assumed names away from the Shore.

In small towns across America the blind and cowardly scramble, push and shove getting and spending while their homes are burning and their complexions grow progressively darker.

Von Brunn paints and plots.

[Hokie]

7. He was a Birther, also

That is not a shock.

von Brunn a 'Birther'
06.10.09 -- 3:50PM
By Josh Marshall

One thing we've learned about James von Brunn is that he was apparentely a 'birther', one of these folks who claims that Barack Obama is not the legitimate president of the United States because he is not a natural born US citizen (this is all the 'where's the birth certificate' nonsense).

The great majority of the people who're into this stuff are just harmless wingers and nutballs. But this stuff has clearly also permeated the extremist fringe. We'll be putting more up on this soon. But this is clearly of a piece with rising right-wing extremism and fringe violence that -- uncomfortably as it is to say -- is rising in tandem in the early months of the Obama presidency.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/06/von_brunn_a_birther.php?ref=fpblg

[zbdent]

9. and I thought Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" ...