August von Brandis

August von Brandis studied at Prussian Academy of Arts. Training under Hugo Vogel is recorded. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Gdańsk and Aachen. Employment is recorded with RWTH Aachen University and Gdańsk University of Technology. Work by August von Brandis is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections and Huis van het boek. Distinctions recorded are Menzel prize.

• Name — August von Brandis • Born — 12 May 1859 • Birthplace — Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire • Died — 19 October 1947 • Place of death — Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany • Resting Place — Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany • Field — Painting • Education — Prussian Academy of Arts, Berlin • Movement — Impressionism • Awards — Gold Medal for Art by the Emperor Wilhelm II, Gold Medal of the Glaspalast Exhibition in Munich • Elected — Dean of the RWTH Aachen

• Illustration — Rokoko-room in the Würzburg residence August von Brandis came from the old noble family of Brandis from Alfeld an der Leine. Brandis attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin where he was taught by Hugo Vogel and Anton von Werner. From 1884 he taught art at the Technical University of Gdansk, where he became a professor in 1904. Brandis worked together with Adolf Hölzel at his painting school "Neu-Dachau" and was a member of the Künstlerkolonie Dachau (artists’ colony of Dachau). Originally being an artist of historism in Dachau Brandis changed his style to impressionism. He received in 1910 and 1911 Gold Medal for Art by the Emperor Wilhelm II. at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and 1911, and the Gold Medal of the Art Exhibition in Munich. • Illustration — August von Brandis with students in Aachen In 1909, he succeeded Alexander Frenz at the Faculty of Architecture of the RWTH Aachen as a full "professor of figure and landscape painting", and became dean in 1929. In Aachen Brandis had his most successful and creative years. In Kaldenkirchen his parents-in-law had a house with a large garden, August von Brandis spent many time in the Rokoko pavilion. He died in 1947 and was interred at the Waldfriedhof à Aachen.

August von Brandis worked in painting. His work is associated with Impressionism. He was employed by RWTH Aachen University and Gdańsk University of Technology. He belonged to Aachener Burschenschaft Teutonia. He worked at Gdańsk and Aachen.