August Brandes (painter)

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August Brandes (born October 11, 1872 in Gifhorn , † August 5, 1948 in Meersburg ) was a German fresco painter , restorer and teacher of decorative painting .

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August Brandes first learned the profession of facade painter and then attended the arts and crafts school in Hanover . From 1892 he was a student at the Academy in Munich . After graduation he became a teacher for decorative painting at a technical college, probably in Munich.

From 1902 onwards, the city ​​of Augsburg had the fading wall paintings of town houses, churches and other public buildings restored at the suggestion of Friedrich von Thiersch . August Brandes was commissioned to take stock and restore the Augsburg frescoes. Brandes first reconstructed the existing structure and mostly documented it with tempera paintings. These originals are now in the possession of the municipal art collections in Augsburg and the architecture collection of the Technical University of Munich . Hardly anything of August Brande's works has survived. Either the painted buildings were destroyed or the colors of his frescoes faded after just a few decades and were repainted or whitewashed.

Works (selection)

  • Fresco on the ground floor of the new Oberpostdirektion , Augsburg (1908), whitewashed today
  • Façade painting on the Matzlerbogen house, Zirl, Tyrol, (1910), still preserved
  • Façade painting of the Perlach Tower , Augsburg (1911), destroyed or painted over
  • Façade painting at Weberhaus , Augsburg (1913), destroyed in World War II
  • Façade painting at the Rottach post office (1926)
  • Façade painting on the High House in Konstanz (1935/1936)

literature

  • Friedrich von Thiersch : The Augsburg facade painting . In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung 1902, pp. 43–46.
  • Doris Hascher: Facade painting in Augsburg from 16.-18. Century . Wißner, Augsburg 1996.
  • Gregor Nagler: The colors of Augsburg - the white, the colorful and the gray city. in: Open Monument Day 2014. Color. Augsburg 2014 (= Planning and Building No. 75), online version

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Housing Konstanz: The High House , incorrectly referred to there as frescoes; accessed on March 16, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Brandes, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fresco painter, restorer and teacher of decorative painting
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifhorn
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1948
Place of death Meersburg