Paul Brandenburg (painter)

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Paul Brandenburg (born July 18, 1866 in Düsseldorf ; † July 4, 1925 there ) was a German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Brandenburg, son of the Düsseldorf landscape painter Wilhelm Brandenburg , studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy like his father . There he was a student of Hugo Crola (1880–1882), Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. (1883–1885, 1886–1890, 1893/1894), Adolf Schill (1885) and Wilhelm Sohn (1890–1893). He received special support from Janssen, who granted him two grants. While studying, Brandenburg was a member of the Tartarus student association . After graduating, he worked in Lauenburg, the Bergisches Land , the Eifel , Silesia and the Schaumburg district . From 1898 until his death, Brandenburg lived in Düsseldorf again and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten , the association of Düsseldorf artists and the association for the organization of art exhibitions .

literature

  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 .
  • Sabine Schroyen: Sources for the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, p. 544

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on January 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1925
Place of death Dusseldorf