Martin Brandenburg (8 May 1870 in Posen – 19 February 1919 in

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) was a German

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter, draftsman and graphic artist, best known for his landscapes filled with fantastical figures.

Life

From 1889 to 1892, he studied at the Prussian Academy of Art then, from 1894 to 1895 in Paris. He first came to public notice through an exhibition held in the

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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, Hans Baluschek. 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

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and exhibited with them at the

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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