Christian Hilfgott Brand

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Christian Hilfgott Brand (also Hilfegott , Hülfgott , Hulfgott , Helfgott , Theophil ; also Brand the Elder ; born 1693 , March 16, 1694 or 1695 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; died 1756 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian painter.

biography

River crossing , Christian Hilfgott Brand, Ca 'd'Oro , Venice

Christian Hilfgott Brand was born in Frankfurt (Oder). He completed his training in Hamburg , where his father had moved with his business. After completing his training, he moved to Regensburg to live with his mother's relatives. He was supposed to take an office job, but already had contact with the painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola and discovered his love for painting. The Agricola, influenced by the painters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin , produced outstanding atmospheric landscapes.

After Agricola's death in 1719, Brand went to Vienna, where he settled in 1720. During this time he lost his first wife Rosina. On April 24, 1725 he married Maria Magdalena Thorwild (died August 26, 1789).

View of the city of Vienna 1740 , Christian Hilfgott Brand, commissioned by the Danish ambassador to Austria Christian August von Berkentin , today in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover

Brand was talented, but also smart enough to surround himself with a group of artists. From 1726 to 1728 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Around 1735 he met the painters Franz Christoph Janneck (1703–1761), Karl Aigen (1684–1762) and Josef Orient (1677–1747) in Frankfurt am Main . Brand became famous and soon regarded as one of the best landscape painters of his time. The imperial court mentioned him in 1738 as a specialist in painting in the Dutch style. In 1740 he was commissioned with a series of pictures that were larger than usual. He brought in his friend August Querfurt , who painted horses and people. The work, however, drained him. After six months he suffered a stroke that paralyzed him on one side. Brand changes from the right to the left hand and painted the picture Magnificat , which was famous at the time and which you can see no difference to his previous pictures. He remained court painter until the end of his life. In 1751 Brand was one of the first honorary members of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1754 he became an advisor to the academy. The ambassador of Sardinia loved his pictures. The Danish ambassador to Austria Christian August von Berkentin commissioned a view of Vienna in 1740. Other enthusiasts of his works included the Canon of Mainz and Trier and the Danish envoy in Vienna Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt , the Sardinian envoy in Vienna Ludwig von Canal and the art theorist Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn . His later work influenced his son from his second marriage Friedrich August Brand and his son from his first marriage Johann Christian Brand . Christian Hilfgott Brand died on July 22, 1756 in Vienna.

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Landscape with a fountain , Christian Hilfgott Brand, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu

In 1776 Louis de Bonafous de Fontenai wrote in his Dictionnaire des artistes “  Les premières pièces de cet artiste étaient un peu sombres; mais il se ravisa bientôt. L'aménité et la fonte des couleurs caractérisent ses derniers tableaux. Peu de paysagistes allemands l'égalent pour représenter l'eau tranquille, et les vapeurs que le soleil dissipe. Simple dans la composition, il mettait de la variété dans les teintes et dans les accidents. Il faisait fort bien les figures, et les plaçait avec intelligence.  »(German:" The first works of this artist were a little gloomy; but soon he changed his attitude. Grace and colourfulness characterize his new pictures. Few German landscape painters can depict the calm water and the rising mist scattered by the sun. Simply im Structure, he breaks down the variety of colors and coincidences. He paints good figures that are intelligently arranged. ")

Louis-Mayeul Chaudon is of the same opinion in his Nouveau dictionnaire historique : “  Rien n'est plus calme que ses eaux, plus humide que sa rosée, courbant les plantes sous son poids. Rien n'est plus riche que les reflets de l'astre du jour, qui disparaît sur les nuages.  »(German:" Nothing is calmer than its water, more humid than its dew, the plants bending under its weight. Nothing is richer than the reflections of the morning star that disappears on the clouds. ")

In the Grand dictionnaire universel du xix e siècle , Pierre Larousse wrote in 1867: “  Il excellait à peindre des eaux calmes, la rosée, des effets du soleil disparaissant sous les nuages.  »(German:" He shines when painting calm waters and with the dew that the sun sends into the clouds. ")

Jean Sylvain Bailly , the first mayor of Paris, wrote commentaries on contemporary artists. Coming from a family of painters, in his Recueil des pièces intéressantes sur les arts, les sciences et la littérature, published posthumously in 1810, he gives us references to brands as sources of inspiration: “  Dans ses paysages, pour la teinte des verts indécis, il s'approcha de Adriaen van de Velde, sans l'avoir imité: sa manière de dessiner les arbres, de jeter et de toucher les ronces et les broussailles tient beaucoup de celle de Jan Both; quant aux morceaux qu'il fit à l'instance des amateurs, s'il suivit le goût de Huisman, il ne prit que l'esprit et la perfection de son modèle. C'est dans le même sens qu'il sembla rechercher le goût de Wartele  »(German:“ In his landscapes with the many shades of green he follows Adriaen van de Velde without imitating him. His way of painting trees and closing bushes and shrubs arrange, resembles that of Jan Both . When designing the characters, he follows the manner of Cornelis Huysmans in the spirit and in the perfection of execution. ”). The general content of the article is generously drawn from Éclaircissements historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn , a collector of Brand's works.

Museums and collections

Most of Brand's works are in museums on the former territories of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy . The majority is kept in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna and the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu .

The only known portrait of Brands is a self-portrait that can be found in the Austrian monastery of Kremsmünster .

Germany

Austria

Europe

America

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum

Exhibitions

  • Salzburg, Residenzgalerie, Exposition Ship Ahead - Marine painting from the 14th to 19th centuries: July 16, 2005 to November 1, 2005

literature

  • Johann Rudolf Füssli : General Artist = Lexicon, or: Brief message about the life and works of the Mahler, sculptor, master builder, copper engraver, art caster, steel cutter, [et] c. [et] c., together with an attached list of the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon, described in alphabetical order . Heidegger and Compagnie, Zurich 1763, p. 75 ( books.google.com ).
  • Johann Rudolf Füssli: General Artist Lexicon, or: Brief message about the life and works of the Mahler, sculptor, master builder, copper engraver, art caster, steel cutter [et] c. [et] c .: Along with attached lists of teachers and students; also of the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon . Orell, Geßner, Füeßlin and Compagnie, Zurich 1779, p. 104 ( books.google.com ).
  • Christian von Mechel : Catalog des tableaux de la Galerie impériale et royale de Vienne . Basel 1784, p. 303, 304 (French, books.google.com ).
  • Charles-Guillaume Leclerc: Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique: Contenant l'histoire abrégée de toutes les personnes de l'un et de l'autre sexe qui se sont fait un nom par leurs talens, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes, depuis le commencement du monde ; avec l'histoire des dieux de toutes les mythologies, et dans lequel on rapporte les jugemens des meilleurs écrivains sur le caractère, les mœurs et les Literaturs de ces mêmes personnes, et des considérations sur l'accroissement, la décadence et la chute des empires . tape 1 . Étienne Ledoux, Paris 1822, p. 320 (French, books.google.com ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . tape 2 : Borner - Cleoetas . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 106 ( books.google.com [accessed September 15, 2015]).

Web links

Commons : Christian Hilfgott Brand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Heinrich Ludwig von Winckelmann : Ludwig von Winkelmanns, Edlen auf Üermiß, new painter's lexicon for closer knowledge of old and new good paintings, together with the monograms . Ed .: Joseph Heller . Second unedited edition. from Jenisch- and Stagesche Buchhandlung , Augsburg, Leipzig 1830, p. 43 ( books.google.de ).
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  3. ^ Jean Sylvain Bailly: Recueil des pièces intéressantes sur les arts, les sciences et la littérature, ouvrage posthume de Sylvain Bailly ... précédé de la vie littéraire et politique de cet homme illustrious . Ferra aîné, Paris 1810 (French, gallica.bnf.fr [accessed September 13, 2015]).
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  5. ^ A b Louis-Abel de Bonafous: Dictionnaire des artistes ou Notice historique et raisonnée des architectes, peintres, etc ... Vincent, Paris January 1, 1776, p. 256 (French, books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Biography of BRAND, Christian Hilfgott in the Web Gallery of Art. In: wga.hu. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Christian Hilfgott fire. In: digital.belvedere.at. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Louis-Mayeul Chaudon, Antoine-François Delandine: Nouveau dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un nom… depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours. 8th edition. tape 2 . Bruyset aîné, Lyon 1804, p. 500 (French, gallica.bnf.fr [accessed on September 13, 2015]… avec des tables chronologiques… par L.-M. Chaudon et F.-A. Delandine.).
  9. ↑ Pierre Larousse: Grand dictionnaire universel du xix e siècle: français, historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique… T. 2 B / par M. Pierre Larousse . Ed .: Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel. Paris ( gallica.bnf.fr [accessed September 13, 2015]).
  10. ^ Franz Christoph Janneck, Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Lettre à un amateur de la peinture [by FC Janneck] avec Des éclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableux qui le composent [by CL von Hagedorn.]. January 1, 1755 (French, books.google.com [accessed September 14, 2015]).
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  19. ^ Annual report 1965 . In: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Hrsg.): Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum . No. 46 , 1966, ISSN  0379-0231 , pp. 158 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
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  26. ^ Gábor de Térey: Catalog des tableaux anciens et modern du Musée des beaux-arts de Budapest: I. maîtres anciens, ouvrage orné de cent et onze reproductions en autotypie . 2nd Edition. 1910, p. 291 (French, rapportgallica.bnf.fr [accessed December 25, 2017]).
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  33. ^ Eugenia Bianchi, Luciano Caramel: Dipinti dalla Metà del Seicento alla Fine del Settecento. In: Maria Bugli (ed.): Pinacoteca Ambrosiana . tape 3 . Electa, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-370-2875-6 , pp. 33 .
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  38. ^ Bridgeman Images. In: Bridgeman Images. Retrieved September 12, 2015 .
  39. ↑ Search Results - Hilfgott / Harvard Art Museum. In: harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved December 26, 2017 .
  40. ^ Peter Keller, Gerhard Plasser, Elisabeth Zeilinger: 2005 - ship ahead. Catalog for the exhibition Ship Ahead - Marine Painting of the 14th to 19th Centuries: July 16, 2005 to November 1, 2005 . Ed .: Thomas Habersatter. Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg 2005 ( residenzgalerie.at [accessed December 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Christian Hilfgott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Christian Hilfegott; Brand, Christian Hülfgott; Brand, Christian Hulfgott; Brand, Christian Helfgott; Brand, Theophil; Brand the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1694 or 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH 1756
Place of death Vienna