Albert Heinrich Brendel

Albert Heinrich Brendel ( born June 7, 1827 in Berlin, † May 28, 1895 in Weimar ) was a German painter.

Brendel showed early fondness for animals and their representation. The landscape painter Wilhelm Schirmer took him into his studio and encouraged him to attend the Academy. Later he devoted himself to marine painting by Wilhelm Krause, but operating alongside the study of animals in the Veterinary School in Berlin.

1851 Brendel went over Holland and through Normandy to Paris, where he initially worked at Thomas Couture, then the animal painter Filippo Palizzi. In 1852, Brendel went to Italy and Sicily. In 1854 to 1864 he was back in Paris and during the summer in Barbizon in the Fontainebleau forest resident, where he trained his sense of nature in its dealings with the French masters Théodore Rousseau, Jean -François Millet and Constant Troyon.

In most strenuous work now arose in rapid succession, the ripened fruit of his education, which greatest recognition as well found both in Paris and Berlin, so even one of his sheep images ( 1863) was bought for the Musée du Luxembourg. Especially appreciated are his pictures with flocks of sheep in different location and surroundings, always with rich and profound characteristics, with the charm of scenic view and careful thorough education of the landscape. From 1869 to 1875 he lived mainly in Berlin. In 1875 he moved to Weimar, where he was Professor and Director of the School of Art 1882-85 Weimar was.