Heinrich Brandes

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Self-portrait, pencil drawing from 1832
Landscape near Harzburg , painting from 1868

Hans Heinrich Georg Brandes (born May 23, 1803 in Bortfeld ; † October 6, 1868 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter , university teacher and gallery inspector.

Life

Brandes initially trained in the Stobwasser factory before completing his natural history studies at the Munich Academy from 1823 to 1825 , where he worked as a teacher until 1830.

He stayed in Rome for study purposes from 1830 to 1832, where he painted in the Campagna Romana , in Tivoli and in the Albanian and Sabine Mountains . There he made friends with Ernst Rietschel , whom he was later able to win for the creation of a Lessing monument in Braunschweig.

In Braunschweig, where he returned in 1833, he made a name for himself primarily as a landscape and portrait painter. He became a member of the municipal art club and the art association. From 1835 he worked as a teacher of painting and drawing at the Collegium Carolinum . At the same time he entered the civil service as gallery inspector of the Ducal Museum. There it was one of his tasks to look after the state of preservation of the works of art in the ducal painting collections. For example, he uncovered and restored the medieval murals found in Brunswick Cathedral in 1845. Following the restoration work, Brandes painted the north transept in 1861. “The combination of freelance artistic work and restoration was quite typical for this time. Restoration was not yet understood as a scientific activity, but as a manual work that required artistic sensitivity and extensive knowledge of ancient art. Heinrich Brandes' methods of restoration were very advanced for the time. ”In 1854 he was appointed professor .

Style and works

Brandes combined the principles of classical composition with elements of romanticism in his works . There are also stylistic relationships to the “ Nazarenes ” or to the “Munich Landscapes”. He achieved particular sales successes with his pictures of the Alps, but also his resin paintings and views from the area around Braunschweig attracted attention. These included, for example, the view of Riddagshausen from 1848. In 1906, some of his works were exhibited in Berlin. Some of his pictures are in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and Municipal Museum in Braunschweig . His oil painting The Coliseum in Rome was exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace in 1931 with other works of German romantic painting and fell victim to the fire on June 6th.

Brandes lived in Braunschweig until his death. His granddaughter was the painter Amalie Wilke .

literature

  • Regine Nahrwold: Brandes, Hans Heinrich Jürgen (Georg Heinrich). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 88-89 .
  • Georg Jacob Wolf (ed.): Lost works of German romantic painters. Bruckmann, Munich 1932, 4th edition, p. 87.
  • Gerlinde Spies: The Brunswick landscape painter Heinrich Brandes 1803–1868. Braunschweig 1989.
  • Rolf Ahlers: Heinrich Brandes - Memory of the Brunswick landscape painter (1803–1868). In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 89 (1), pp. 4-6.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Brandes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Regine Nahrwold: Brandes, Hans Heinrich Jürgen (Georg Heinrich). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 88-89 .
  2. ↑ Ursula Schädler-Saub: Medieval churches in Lower Saxony - ways of preservation and restoration from the 19th century to today. Regional cultural heritage routes, vol. 1, writings of the Hornemann Institute, vol. 4. Ed. By Angela Weyer, Petersberg 2000. Catalog contribution about the Braunschweig Cathedral in collaboration with Caroline Aßmann and Barbara Hentschel.
personal data
SURNAME Brandes, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandes, Hans Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, university professor and gallery inspector
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Bortfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1868
Place of death Braunschweig