Martin Brandenburg

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Martin Brandenburg (around 1900). Photo by Wilhelm Fechner
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Elfenreigen , around 1906–1909

Martin Brandenburg (born May 8, 1870 in Posen , † February 19, 1919 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist of impressionism and symbolism . He is best known for his fantastic paintings and fairytale landscapes.

From 1889 to 1892 he studied at the academy in Berlin, 1894–1895 in Paris. He first became famous in 1895 through an exhibition in Fritz Gurlitt's salon in Berlin.

Brandenburg was a member of the Association of the XI from 1897 and of the Berlin Secession after 1898 and was a close friend of Hans Baluschek . From 1908 to 1918 he taught painting and sculpture in the Berlin study studios (the so-called Lewin-Funcke School), where he was among other things the teacher of the textile designer Anni Albers and the painter Irma Stern .

His works have been compared with those of Max Beckmann . Martin Brandenburg was a member of the German Association of Artists . At the first joint exhibition between the Munich Secessionists and the DKB in 1904, he exhibited the oil painting Waldesschauer .

Starting in 1906, on behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, he supplied designs for Stollwerck collector's pictures , including the Stollwerck collector 's albums no. 9 and 10. His painting Walk was shown in 1914 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandenburg, Martin ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Short biography at the German Historical Museum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dhm.de
  2. ↑ a b Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger: Self-portrait in words: collected writings and statements, 1903-1950. University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-22604135-3 , p. 355 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Anni Albers on Belovedlinens.net
  4. ↑ Irma Stern  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Grahams Fine Art Gallery@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.grahamsfineartgallery.co.za  
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Brandenburg, Martin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 6, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  6. ↑ s. Catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Publishing House F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 19: Brandenburg, Martin, Berlin. Cat. No. 7: Waldesschauer . )
  7. ↑ Stollwerck scrapbook No. 9 fairy tales from all over the world . Verlag Gebr. Stollwerck, Berlin / Pressburg / New York 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist of impressionism and symbolism
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1919
Place of death Stuttgart