Peter Brandes - Composition

Peter Brandes (born 5 March 1944 in Assens, Denmark) is a famous Danish painter and sculptor.

. Brandes' art is abstract . He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He has inter alia done artwork on Roskilde Domkirke and mosaic (colored glass) windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles. [ In 1998, he created the enormous Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main Roskilde Railway Station.
. Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity. Also the ancient Greek mythology has inspired his art.
. Brades now lives in Colombes near Paris together with his wife Maja Lise Engelhardt who is also a painter. [6]