Johann Christian Brand

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Johann Christian Brand (etching; reverse copy by an unknown artist after an etching by Adam von Bartsch , which shows the artist in an oval)
Cuirassier in marching adjustment on horseback , around 1750/60 ( HGM )
Meadow landscape , around 1790 ( Albertina )
Laxenburg from the Hayd-Lusthaus against Maria Lanzendorf , 1758, Belvedere , Vienna
Danube landscape, seen from Bisamberg , around 1790, Belvedere , Vienna

Johann Christian Brand (born November 15, 1722 in Vienna ; † June 12, 1795 ibid) was an Austrian landscape painter , draftsman , etcher and engraver .

Life

He was the son of the landscape painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (* Frankfurt (Oder) 1695, † in Vienna in 1750) and the elder brother of the well as a landscape painter, as a student, member and later as a professor at the Imperial Court Academy make Friedrich August Brand . His second younger brother was probably the Austrian / German painter Heinrich Carl Brandt (born November 11, 1724 in Vienna, † May 6, 1787 in Munich ).

Brand studied at the Vienna Academy from 1736, where he was appointed chamber painter in 1766 . In 1772 he became a professor of landscape drawing at the Vienna Academy. His feeling for scenic natural beauties was particularly pronounced. Just as important are his detailed representations of the architecture, whereby the fine execution with lively and color-coordinated staffages is particularly to be emphasized. He is considered to be the first landscape painter to capture reality in such a way that he can be described as the father of Austrian landscape painting of the 19th century. His art forms the transition from the baroque to the landscape of the 19th century. His pictures were already very well received during his lifetime and can be found in galleries in Germany, France, England and Russia in addition to Vienna.

In 1876, Brandgasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Plant, reception

A special feature of Johann Christian Brand's work are 16 oil paintings , which are now in the permanent exhibition of the Vienna Army History Museum (Hall II). These are depictions of the cavalry at the time of Maria Theresa , using a series of copper engravings by Jacob Matthias Schmutzer , which appeared in 1768, as a template . In the above-mentioned oil paintings, charming landscape backgrounds are combined with a precise reproduction of the adjustment .

Works (excerpt)

  • Cuirassier in marching adjustment on foot (front), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Cuirassier in marching adjustment on foot (back), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Cuirassier in marching adjustment on horseback (front), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Cuirassier in marching adjustment on horseback (back), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Dragoons in marching adjustment on foot (front), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Dragoons in marching adjustment on foot (back), oil on wood, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Dragoons in marching adjustment on horseback (front), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Dragoons in marching adjustment on horseback (back), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Chevauleger in marching adjustment on foot (front), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Chevauleger in marching adjustment on foot (back), oil on wood, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Chevauleger in marching adjustment on horseback (front), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Chevauleger in marching adjustment on horseback (back), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Hussar in marching adjustment on foot (front), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Hussar in marching adjustment on foot (back), oil on panel, 30 × 19 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
  • Hussar in marching adjustment on horseback (front), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Hussar in marching adjustment on horseback (back), oil on panel, 39 × 27 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Aulandschaft , around 1790, gouache / watercolor , 39.9 × 33.1 cm, Albertina Graphic Collection , Vienna
  • The Sand Pit , 1744, oil on canvas, Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
  • Danube landscape near Vienna , around 1760, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 48.5 cm, Belvedere , Vienna
  • Laxenburg vom Hayd-Lusthaus against Maria Lanzendorf , 1758, oil on canvas, 98 × 138 cm, Belvedere, Vienna
  • Laxenburg from the Lusthaus on the Hanawiese against Mödling , 1758, oil on canvas, 97 × 138 cm, Belvedere, Vienna
  • Danube landscape, seen from Bisamberg , around 1790, oil on canvas, 27.5 × 48.5 cm, Belvedere, Vienna

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Vienna 2000, p. 31
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1795
Place of death Vienna