Johann Christian Brand

was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n painter (son of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand

Christian Hilfgott Brand

Christian Hilfgott Brand, who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1695, and studied under Agricola, left that town and settled, in 1720, at Vienna, where he became celebrated for his landscapes. He died at Vienna in 1756. The Belvedere has by him four pictures, landscapes with figures of...

 (1694–1756) who taught in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 with Karl Aigen

Karl Aigen

Karl Aigen, who was born at Olmütz in 1684, painted in Vienna, and in 1754 became a member of the Academy, of which he was subsequently director and professor. He died at Vienna in 1762. The Gallery of the Belvedere in that city has two works by him — both views...

) and brother of Friedrich August Brand

Friedrich August Brand

Friedrich August Brand, the son of Christian Hülfgott Brand, was born at Vienna in 1735. He was a member of the Imperial Academy, and died at Vienna in 1806. He painted several historical subjects and landscapes, which are favourably spoken of by the German authors, and engraved some plates, both...

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Johann Christian Brand influenced ending the baroque era of landscape painting. He died in Vienna.

Life and work

Johann Christian Brand was born in Vienna on March 6, 1722. Influential in ending the baroque era, Johann studied at the Vienna Academy from 1736. He was awarded with the titles Kammermaler in 1766 and "Professor of Landscape Drawing" in 1772. The landscape paintings of Johann Christian Brand marked the transition from the baroque to the 19th-century style of landscape depiction.

Johann Christian Brand died in Vienna on June 12, 1795.

Galleries

Works by Johann Christian Brand are contained in Laxenburg Castle, Österreichische Galerie

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.The art collection includes masterpieces from the Middle Ages and Baroque until the 21st century, though it focuses on Austrian painters from the Fin de Siècle and Art Nouveau period...

 in Belvedere Palace

Belvedere (palace)

The Belvedere is a historical building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the 3rd district of the city, south-east of its centre. It houses the...

, Vienna Art History Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...

, Museum of Military History, National Gallery Prague, Göttweig, Klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg is an attractive small town in Lower Austria, Austria with a population of 24,442.It is located on the Danube, immediately north of Vienna, from which it is separated by the Kahlenberg and Leopoldsberg hills...

, Museum at the Schottenstift, Liechtenstein and Harrach galleries.

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