Jozef Brandt

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Józef Brandt (Portrait of Boleslaw von Szankowski , Warsaw, National Museum Inv.MP 961)

Józef Brandt (born February 11, 1841 in Szczebrzeszyn , † June 12, 1915 in Radom ) was a Polish painter in Munich , who mainly devoted himself to history painting. He is assigned to the Munich School .

Life

Brandt initially devoted himself to engineering and therefore attended the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris from 1858 , but soon turned to painting. In 1860 he traveled to eastern Poland with the painter Juliusz Kossak (1824–1899). In 1863 he went to Munich, where he studied since February 17, 1863 in the class of antiquities of the Royal Academy of Arts with Karl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886), as well as in the private studios of Franz Adam (1815-1886) and the watercolor courses of Theodor Horschelt (1829–1871). In 1867 he set up his own studio in Munich, which he kept until his death. He spent the summer months in the village of Orońsko near Radom . In 1877 he married Helena von Woyciechowski Pruszaków, the owner of the Orońsko estate. He was friends with Władysław Szerner , together they visited the Ukraine and Volhynia .

He made pictures of soldiers and wars, mostly from the 17th century, and genre scenes from the lives of his compatriots, which he masterfully characterized, as his main subject.

One of his first larger pictures was An Attack by Polish Horsemen on Turks in the 17th Century in 1867 .

Then followed

  • Polish country people in front of a brandy tavern (1868),
  • An episode of the Thirty Years War ,
  • The passage of the Polish cavalry through the Gulf to Jutland in 1658 (1870),
  • A camp scene from the 17th century ,
  • Market day in a small Polish town (1872),
  • the wildly moving, particularly masterful Turkish battle near Vienna on September 12, 1683 ,
  • Before the crossing ,
  • Fleet billeting (1873),
  • Crossing of a Polish supply column across the Carpathian Mountains ,
  • Ukrainian Cossacks (Museum in Koenigsberg),
  • Tabun leader in southern Russia , * Cossacks on outposts (1876),
  • Excerpt for steppe hunting ,
  • The Vedette ,
  • Village street in Ukraine ,
  • Cossack camp ,
  • Tatar fight (1878, main work, Berlin National Gallery) among others

gallery

literature

  • Anna Bernat: Józef Brandt (1841–1915) . Edipresse Polska, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-7477-215-0 .
  • Józef Brandt (1841–1915), między Monachium a Orońskiem; [wystawa w setną rocznicę śmierci artysty, Muzeum Rzeźby Współczesnej, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku, 20 czerwca - 25 października 2015] / Józef Brandt (1841–1915) between Munich and Orońsko; [Exhibition on the centenary of the artist's death, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, June 20 - October 25, 2015]. Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku, Orońsko 2015, ISBN 978-83-64653-04-9 .

Web links

Commons : Józef Brandt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Matriculation book of the Munich Academy .
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczebrzeszyn
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1915
Place of death Radome