Petr Brandl (Peter Johannes Brandl or Jan Petr Brandl) (24 October 1668 – 24 September 1735) was a

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of the late

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in the bilingual

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. Brandl was the sixth child in a Czech-German family. His father, Michal Brandl, worked as a

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and was of German ancestry. His mother, Alžběta Hrbková, was Czech from a peasant family in the south Bohemian village of Přestanice (now part of

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).“Petr Brandl: A leading Baroque painter in Bohemia,” Tracy A. Burns, https://www.private-prague-guide.com/article/petr-brandl-a-leading-baroque-painter-in-bohemia/ Brandl was famous in his time but – due to isolation behind the

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– rather forgotten until recently. Brandl employed strong

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, areas of heavy

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and very plastic as well as dramatic figures. According to the

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and other sources, Brandl was apprenticed around 1683–1688 to Kristián Schröder (1655–1702). The

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, has an entire hall devoted to the artist's works, including "Bust of an Apostle" from some time before 1725. The artist is a distant ancestor of both contemporary Austrian painter

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and contemporary

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painter

Mark Staff Brandl Mark Staff Brandl (born 1955) is an American-born artist, art historian and philosopher of art now living primarily in Switzerland. History Born in Peoria, Illinois and raised in Pekin, Illinois, Brandl is the son of Earl and Ruth Brandl, and ...

.Interview with Mark Staff Brandl in Art Museum Thurgau, 2006.

Gallery

Petr Brandl - Autoportrét (1734).jpg, Brandl2.jpg, Petr Brandl - Simeon with Infant Jesus - Google Art Project.jpg, Peter Jan Brandl (attr) Petrus mit dem Hahn.jpg, Krzeszów, bazylika, Wnibowzięcie NMP, obraz w ołtarzu głównym autorstwa P. Brandla (Aw58).JPG,

References

External links

Biography (in Czech)
(archived 23 February 2006)

(archived 21 July 2012) {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandl, Petr 1668 births 1739 deaths Czech painters Czech male painters Czech portrait painters Czech baroque painters Baroque painters