Martin Brandenburg (8 May 1870 in Posen – 19 February 1919 in Stuttgart) was a German Impressionist painter, draftsman and graphic artist, best known for his landscapes filled with fantastical figures.

Life

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Salon, Berlin. In 1897, he joined a local

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society known as the "Vereinigung der XI" and the following year became a member of the

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. He was a good friend of the Realist painter,

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. In 2017, the

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presented a joint exhibition of their works. From 1908 to 1918, he taught a class for young women at the ''Studienatelier für Malerei und Plastik'', also known as the "Lewin-Funcke Schule", after its founder, the sculptor

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. Among his best-known students there were the textile designer

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and the painter

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. In 1906, he was one of the artists selected by the

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chocolate company to create new

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for inclusion in their products. He produced designs for their Collector Scrapbooks numbers 9 and 10.Stollwerck-Sammelalbum No. 9 "Märchen aus allen Landen". Verlag Gebr. Stollwerck, Berlin, Pressburg, New York, 1906. He was also a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and exhibited with them at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1914. His works have occasionally been compared to those of

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References

External links

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Martin Brandenburg in ''The Artist'', vols.31-32
@ Google Books
ArtNet: More works by Brandenburg.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandenburg, Martin 1870 births 1919 deaths Impressionism Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters