Lot 61: Companion Pieces: Bear and Deers in the Tyrolia Alps

Hans Heinrich Jürgen Brandes, Bortfeld 1803 - Braunschweig 1868 Companion Pieces: Bear and Deers in the Tyrolia Alps, Probably early 1830s, oil/canvas, 29 x 24 cm, each sign. lo. ri. H. Brandes. - In the original frames. - German landscape a. still life painter. B. was trained in the Braunschweig lacquer manufactory Stobwasser 1817-23, followed by studies at the Munich academy until 1828, among others under P. Cornelius. After travelling Tyrolia a. Italy he became professor in Brunswick in 1835. In 1860 he frescoed parts of the Brunswick Dom. - Mus.: Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Brunswick, Hannover. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker.