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Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brütt (13 July 1849, in
He took his first art lessons at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts, where he studied with Günther Gensler and Friedrich Heimerdinger.Kronberger Maler: Brief Biography
/ref> On their recommendation, he transferred to the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School in 1870, where his teachers were Albert Baur,
in the VDG catalog. * Exhibition Catalog: ''Ferdinand Bütt. Erzählung und Impression.'' König, Cologne 2007, .
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Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brütt (13 July 1849, in Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
– 6 November 1936, in Bergen
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) was a German painter. He was a distant relative of the sculptor Adolf Brütt
Adolf Brütt (10 May 1855 in Husum – 6 November 1939 in Bad Berka)Husum Tourismus ...
.
Life and work
He took his first art lessons at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts, where he studied with Günther Gensler and Friedrich Heimerdinger.Kronberger Maler: Brief Biography/ref> On their recommendation, he transferred to the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School in 1870, where his teachers were Albert Baur,
Karl Gussow
Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor.
Life and work
His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he w ...
and the history painter Ferdinand Pauwels. Baur would be particularly influential in forming Brütt's mature style.
When Baur accepted a professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Brütt went with him and became a specialist in painting courtroom scenes. He was able to draw from his own experiences, having spent quite a bit of time on jury duty, developing the genre based on earlier work by Louis Gallait and Hendrik Leys.
In 1889, he took an extended study trip to Italy where he found himself less inspired by the "Old Masters" than he was by the landscapes. This prompted further trips to the Alps
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and the North Sea
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. In 1893, he was appointed a Royal Prussian Professor.
In 1898, his friend Anton Burger
Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, in Greece (1944) and of Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Military career
Anton Burger was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, the son of a station ...
invited him to stay at the Kronberger Artists' Colony in Kronberg im Taunus
Kronberg im Taunus is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies at t ...
. He lived and worked there until 1920. He executed several municipal commissions in Frankfurt
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from 1905 to 1913, including several large wall and ceiling decorations for various public buildings and designs for the Bürgersaale (Civic Hall) in the Rathaus. In 1920, he went to live with his son, a District Court Councillor, in Bergen.
His style may generally be described as impressionistic, although he preferred scenes with large crowds in urban or indoor settings. His initial phase extended through the 1880s, when he developed an interest in more subtle displays of light and color. After 1902, he concentrated on large landscapes.
References
Further reading
* Josef A. Beringer: ''Ferdinand Brütt zum 70. Geburtstag des Künstlers, 13. Juli 1919.'' Velhagen & Klasing, Braunschweig 1919. * August Wiederspahn: ''Die Kronberger Malerkolonie.'' Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, . * Alexander Bastek: ''Ferdinand Brütt und das Städtisch-bürgerliche Genre um 1900'', VDG, Weimar, 2007 Descriptioin the VDG catalog. * Exhibition Catalog: ''Ferdinand Bütt. Erzählung und Impression.'' König, Cologne 2007, .
External links
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