Brandt, Joseph von Joseph von Brandt (1841 - 1928). Born in Szczebrzeszynie in 1841, died in 1915 in Radom. He studied in Paris, from 1862 in Munich at the F. Adam and K. Piloty'ego. He worked mainly in Munich. From 1875 he teached in a private school of painting. He was the leader of the called Munich szkoly Polish painting school. He created mainly paintings about battles. The works of Brandt characterized by the inclusion of the topics and the details of realism, with a free composition. He used mainly brown tones. Joseph Brandt exerted a strong influence on Polish painting and literature (Trilogy Sienkiewicz).
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