Johann Christian Brand
Illustration — Portrait of Johann Christian Brand by Adam Bartsch (1793), Metropolitan Museum of Art • Illustration — Sandpit, by Johann Christian Brand, 1744. Johann Christian Brand (6 March 1722 – 12 June 1795) was an Austrian painter (son of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694–1756) who taught in Vienna with Karl Aigen) and brother of Friedrich August Brand. Brand influenced ending the baroque era of landscape painting.
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Johann Christian Brand
Adam Bartsch · Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection: entry 371067 · Public domain
- Born
- 1722 · Vienna.
- Died
- 1795 · Vienna.
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · draftsperson · artist
- Fields
- landscape
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Portrait of Johann Christian Brand by Adam Bartsch (1793), Metropolitan Museum of Art • Illustration — Sandpit, by Johann Christian Brand, 1744. Johann Christian Brand (6 March 1722 – 12 June 1795) was an Austrian painter (son of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694–1756) who taught in Vienna with Karl Aigen) and brother of Friedrich August Brand. Brand influenced ending the baroque era of landscape painting.
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He died in Vienna.
Johann Christian Brand studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna. Work by Johann Christian Brand is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Nationalmuseum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and Moravian Gallery in Brno.
Johann Christian Brand was born in Vienna on 6 March 1722. Influential in ending the baroque era, Johann studied at the Vienna Academy from 1736. He was awarded with the titles Kammermaler in 1766 and "Professor of Landscape Drawing" in 1772. The landscape paintings of Johann Christian Brand marked the transition from the baroque to the 19th-century style of landscape depiction. Johann Christian Brand died in Vienna on 12 June 1795.
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Works by Johann Christian Brand are contained in Laxenburg Castle, Österreichische Galerie in Belvedere Palace, Vienna Art History Museum, Museum of Military History, National Gallery Prague, Göttweig, Klosterneuburg, Museum at the Schottenstift, Liechtenstein and Harrach galleries.
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1722
Johann Christian Brand was born in 1722 at Vienna.
1793
Portrait of Johann Christian Brand (1793) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1793
Portrait of Johann Christian Brand digitised by Internet Archive.
1795
Johann Christian Brand died in 1795 at Vienna.
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- 1.Cita web http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0108/T010897.asp Johann Christian Brand in The Grove Dictionary of Art
- 2.Cita web http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/peinture/Brand/151279 Enciclopedia online Larousse
- 3.Cita web https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/238815 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- 4.The Flemish, Dutch and German schools of painting.
- 5.Sphinx Fine Art.
- 6.Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings.
- 7.Paesaggio con contadini e mucche - Artnet.
- 8.La Josephiklause a Würnsdorf in Bassa Austria - Artnet.
- 9.Paesaggio con il castello di Leiben - Artnet.
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