Franz Brentano (painter)

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Franz von Lenbach: Portrait of Franz Anton Brentano (1884)
Franz Brentano: Turkish girl in the garden

Franz Anton Brentano (born June 28, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 20, 1888 in Rome ) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Franz was the third of seven children of Georg Franz Melchior Brentano (1801–1853), a businessman in Frankfurt, and his wife Lilla Pfeifer (1813–1868), sister of the Cologne sugar manufacturer ( Pfeifer & Langen ) Emil Pfeifer . The grandfather, who was also his godfather, was the Frankfurt merchant Franz Brentano .

Franz Brentano began studying painting at the age of 35. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1875 to 1878, at which time he lived in the house of Albert Kindler's widow at Goltsteinstrasse 18. From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the Düsseldorf paint box . Brentano later worked in Munich and Rome, mostly painting portraits of exotic beauties.

Franz von Lenbach created a portrait of Brentano in Rome in 1884, which came into the collections of the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt.

After a long period of suffering, Brentano died in Rome in 1888 at the age of 47.

literature

  • Albert Dessoff: Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the 19th Century (= Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2). J. Baer, ​​Frankfurt 1907, p. 19.
  • Brentano, Franz Anton . 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. 583 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Dankmar Trier: Brentano, Franz Anton . 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. 132.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 .
  • Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle)

Web links

Commons : Franz Anton Brentano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
  2. ^ Brentano, Franz, painter, Goltsteinstr. 18 , in the addendum to the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1877
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, p. 104
personal data
SURNAME Brentano, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brentano, Franz Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1888
Place of death Rome