Friedrich August Brand

Friedrich August Brand (engraving by Karl Agricola )

Friedrich August Brand (born December 20, 1735 in Vienna ; † October 9, 1806 there ) was an Austrian landscape and history painter and engraver .

Friedrich August Brand was the son of Christian Hilfgott Brand (1695–1750) and brother of Johann Christian Brand and probably brother of Heinrich Carl Brandt (1724–1787). He learned landscape painting from his father. From 1774 he was a member of the Vienna Academy , from 1776 he was proofreader to his brother Johann Christian, from 1783 professor and after his death in 1795 his successor. He made watercolors and a large number of engravings , in which the influence of Jacob Matthias Schmutzer is clear, as well as oil paintings in Lower Austrian churches. He died in Vienna in 1806.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Brand, Friedrich August . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 111 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August Brand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Friedrich August Brand in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Friedrich August Brand in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )