Józef Brandt

Józef Brandt ( born February 11, 1841 in Szczebrzeszyn, † June 12, 1915 in Radom ) was a Polish painter who mainly devoted himself to historical painting.

Life

Brandt devoted himself initially to the engineer compartment and therefore attended the École Centrale in Paris, but turned to painting in 1862 and moved to Munich, where he trained under Franz Adam and Karl Theodor von Piloty and 1867 established his own studio.

To his main subject, he made soldiers and war pictures, mostly from the 17th century, and genre scenes, endowed from the lives of his countrymen, who he characterized masterfully with juicy, but often highly greyish gambling atmosphere, even if the drawing was initially deficient and the detail sometimes appeared somewhat neglected.

One of his first major pictures 1867 was an attack on Polish rider Turks in the 17th century.

Then followed

  • Polish compatriots in front of a tavern brandy (1868 ),
  • An episode from the Thirty Years' War,
  • The transition of the Polish Cavalry by the Gulf of Jutland 1658 (1870),
  • A camp scene from the 17th century,
  • Market day in a Polish town (1872 )
  • The moving wildly, particularly masterful Turks Battle of Vienna on September 12, 1683
  • Before crossing,
  • Fleet billeting (1873 ),
  • Transition of a Polish provisions column over the Carpathians,
  • Ukrainian Cossacks ( Museum in Königsberg ),
  • Tabunenführer in southern Russia, * Cossack outpost on (1876 )
  • Extract the steppe hunting,
  • The Vedette,
  • Village street in the Ukraine,
  • Cossack camp,
  • Tatar struggle (1878, masterpiece, National Gallery in Berlin ) and others

Gallery

" January Karol Chodkiewicz at the Battle of Chocim 1621 " (1867 )

" The Hussar "

" The Cossacks wedding "

" The Cossack camp"

" Stefan Czarnecki at Kolding ," (1870 )

"The battle for the Turkish Banner "

" The Noble Levy " (1880 )

" The Lisowczycy " (1885 )

"The Return of the Cossacks " (1894 )

" The laying down of standards by Turkish troops," (1905 )

"Polish troops sing in front of the battle, the Bogurodzica " (1909 )

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