Christian Hilfgott Brand - Landscape with a Cottage, Lake, and Figures
Christian Hilfgott Brand
Landscape with a Cottage, Lake, and Figures
Oil on canvas (relined). 55 x 68.5 cm.
Signed lower left: Brand. fe:.
Christian Hilfgott Brand was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, but later moved to Frankfurt with his father before finally settling in Vienna in 1720. He primarily dedicated himself to landscape painting, and received numerous commissions from the Imperial court and from foreign dignitaries in the residential city of Vienna. He was named one of the first honourary members of the Vienna Academy of Arts in 1751.
Today, many of his works are housed in the Museum Belvedere in Vienna and the Brukenthal-Museum in Sibiu.
Provenance
The Krug zu Nidda Collection, Schloss Frohwein. – Confiscated during the Russian occupation and presented to the Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg in 1946. - Returned to the Krug von Nidda family in 1997.
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Christian Hilfgott Brand
Landscape with a Cottage, Lake, and Figures
Oil on canvas (relined). 55 x 68.5 cm.
Signed lower left: Brand. fe:.
Christian Hilfgott Brand was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, but later moved to Frankfurt with his father before finally settling in Vienna in 1720. He primarily dedicated himself to landscape painting, and received numerous commissions from the Imperial court and from foreign dignitaries in the residential city of Vienna. He was named one of the first honourary members of the Vienna Academy of Arts in 1751.
Today, many of his works are housed in the Museum Belvedere in Vienna and the Brukenthal-Museum in Sibiu.
Provenance
The Krug zu Nidda Collection, Schloss Frohwein. – Confiscated during the Russian occupation and presented to the Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg in 1946. - Returned to the Krug von Nidda family in 1997.
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