Peter Johann Brandl

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Self-portrait, 1700

Peter Johann Brandl (born October 24, 1668 in Prague , † September 24, 1735 in Kuttenberg ; also Brandel or Prantl , in Czech Jan Petr Brandl ) was a Bohemian Baroque painter .

Education and Success

Brandl was a student of the Prague court painter Christian Schröder from 1685 to 1691 . Here he got to know the works of Dutch and Italian masters. However, his model was the painter Karl Skreta ( Karel Škréta ). The first portraits, with which he soon became known, he made at the age of 19. Commissions from church institutions for religious works followed, with which he gained a great reputation. Since 1694 he was master of the old town painter mine . His works include portraits , genre pictures , religious representations and images from mythology . Alongside Wenzel Lorenz Reiner , he is described as the most important painter of the heyday of the Bohemian Baroque. One of his students was Christian Philipp Bentum .

Portrait of a Successor, 1735 or later

In his pictures he chose dramatic productions that he combined with light sources and shades. The vivid characteristics of his personalities allowed him to paint accurate portraits. JQ Jahn wrote about him: "He modeled whole figures and groups of figures in the mud so that he could read the refraction of light and the shadow play."

Origin and family

Johann Peter Brandl was the son of wealthy parents. His father was a tailor and innkeeper, probably of German origin, his mother Alžběta Hrbková came from a farming family from Přestanice . He first attended the Jesuit high school . At the age of 33 he married the daughter of a painter, with whom he had three children, whom he later left. His son Anton was an engraver. Although he was well paid for his work, he lived in disorderly financial circumstances and led an unsteady life. So he had to z. B. for the execution of the order of the Grüssau main altarpiece can only be ransomed by the abbot from the Königgrätzer guilty prison.

Towards the end of his life, Brandl settled in Kuttenberg, where - despite his great artistic success - he is said to have died impoverished. His grave is in the local Marienkirche.

The artist is a distant ancestor of contemporary Austrian painter Herbert Brandl and contemporary American and Swiss painter Mark Staff Brandl .

Works

In Prague

  • Clementinum , St. Clemenz Church ( Kostel svatého Klimenta ): main altar painting of St. Leonhard
  • St. Maria de Victoria ( Kostel P. Marie Vítězné ): Altarpieces St. Joseph , St. Joachim with St. Anna and St. Simon
  • Břevnov Monastery : Altarpiece Death of St. Winthir in the monastery church of St. Margaret ( kostel sv. Markéty )
Grüssau , altar painting of the Assumption
Simeon with the baby Jesus , 1725 ( National Gallery Prague )

In other places

  • Bechin , Mätthäuskirche: Painting Adoration of the Magi
  • Doxan , Monastery Church of the Assumption: Main altar painting
  • Elbow , St. Wenceslas Church: Altarpieces
  • Königgrätz , Holy Spirit Cathedral ( Chrám svatého Ducha ): painting of St. Anthony ; Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ( Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie ): painting
  • Kolín , Church of St. Bartholomew ( Chrám svatého Bartoloměje ): painting Martyrdom of St. Bartolomew
  • Kožlany Church of St. Lawrence, painting of St. Lawrence
  • Kuttenberg , St. Jacob's Church ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): Altar painting of the Holy Trinity
  • Lissa on the Elbe : paintings in the castle
  • Nová Paka , Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption: two paintings
  • Manětín - Křest Kristův (1715/6) - Church of St. Jana Křtitele
  • Pless , Marienkirche: Altar painting
  • Saar an der Sazau , Marienkirche: main altar painting
  • Schloss Schluesselburg , Dreifaltigkeitskirche: paintings
  • Sedletz Abbey, Abbey Church: Painting Fourteen Holy Helpers
  • Smiřice - Klanění tří králů (1727) - Zjevení Páně Church
  • Světlá nad Sázavou , parish church: altar paintings
  • Teplitz , deanery church John the Baptist: paintings

In Czech galleries

In County Glatz

  • Bad Reinerz ( Duszniki-Zdrój ), parish church St. Peter and Paul: Main altar painting Farewell of St. Peter and Paul
  • Friedersdorf ( Łężyce ), high altar picture

In Silesia

  • Grüssau ( Krzeszów ), former collegiate church: Altar painting of the Assumption and St. Nepomuk donates alms
  • Klutschau ( Klucz ), parish church St. Elisabeth: painting Christ on the cross

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Johann Brandl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Ambrosius Rose: Grüssau Monastery . Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-8062-0126-9 , p. 105
  2. ↑ Interview with Mark Staff Brandl in Kunstmuseum Thurgau, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Brandl, Peter Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandl, Peter Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1735
Place of death Kuttenberg