Albert Brendel

Albert Brendel, 1865, with artist colleagues at a meeting of the Berlin Artists' Association. Graphic by Ludwig Löffler .

Albert Heinrich Brendel (born June 7, 1827 in Berlin , † May 28, 1895 in Weimar ) was a German painter .

Brendel showed a preference for animals and their representation from an early age. The landscape painter Wilhelm Schirmer took him to his studio in Düsseldorf and encouraged him to visit the academy. He later devoted himself to marine painting with Wilhelm Krause , but also studied animals at the Berlin Veterinary School .

In 1851 Brendel went via Holland and Normandy to Paris , where he initially worked for Thomas Couture , then for the animal painter Filippo Palizzi . In 1852 Brendel went to Italy and Sicily. From 1854 to 1864 he was back in Paris and during the summer in Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau , where he trained his sense of nature in communication with the French masters Théodore Rousseau , Jean-François Millet and Constant Troyon .

In the most strenuous work, the fruits of his matured education grew in quick succession, which found the greatest recognition in Paris as well as in Berlin, so that even one of his sheep pictures (1863) was purchased for the Musée du Luxembourg . His pictures with flocks of sheep in different locations and surroundings are particularly valued, always with rich and profound characteristics, with the charm of a painterly conception and careful development of the landscape. From 1869 to 1875 he lived primarily in Berlin. In 1875 he moved to Weimar , where he became a professor and from 1882 to 1885 director of the Weimar School of Art .

tomb

He is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Sheep on the dune, around 1880
Engraving La Bergerie ( The Sheep Farm )

literature

Lisa Hackmann: Brendel, Albert Heinrich. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-035006-7 .
Brendel, Albert Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 577 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Albert Brendel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 109.

Web links

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Literature by and about Albert Brendel in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Albert Brendel in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Brendel, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brendel, Albert Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1895
Place of death	Weimar