Johann Heinrich Brandt

Johann Heinrich Brandt (* 1740 in Lüneburg ; † August 25, 1783 in Hanover ) was a German painter and draftsman . He mainly depicted landscapes, such as the designs for the copperplate illustrations for Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld's theory of garden art .

The grave of Johann Georg Sulzer , copper engraving after a drawing by JH Brandt (1779), illustration for Hirschfeld's theory of garden art

Life

Little is known about the origins and youth of Johannes Heinrich Brandt; apparently he was the grandson of Georg Brandt (born 1622), a portrait painter from Lüneburg. Johann Brandt stayed in Schwerin as a student of Georg David Matthieu . He later worked in Dresden and Hanover. From 1768 on he painted portraits and miniatures for the Principality of Hanover.

Christian Cay Lorenz Hischfeld was able to win him over to illustrate his books with scenes of (mostly) ideal landscapes, many of which were engraved by Christian Gottlieb Geyser .

Works (selection)

• Baron von Olderhausen in a green costume (1768)
• An area with Sulzer's grave by moonlight , copper engraving (around 1779)

literature

• Andreas Røder : Brandt, Johann Heinrich . 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. 536-537 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Wolfgang Kehn: Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld, 1742–1792, a biography. Werner, Worms 1992, ISBN 3-88462-095-9 ; therein only p. 155 (footnote 271).