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Józef Brandt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (91 words) |
 | Brandt studied in Warsaw in the school of J.N. Leszczynski and at the Noblemen`s Institute. |
| In 1858 he left for Paris to study at the Ecole des ponts et chausses but was persuaded by Juliusz Kossak to abandon engineering in favor of painting. |
| His most famous paintings can be viewed in the article Józef Brandt’s Gallery. |
| The Kosciuszko Foundation (436 words) |
| In 1875 Brandt was elected to the Berlin Academy, in 1878 to the Munich Academy, and in 1900 to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. |
| Brandt`s principal subjects were scenes of the seventeenth-century Cossack`s wars and the Tatar and Swedish invasions of Poland, His were imaginative treatments, and not representations of precisely defined historical moments, though he took great pains to accurately depict costumes, weapons, harnesses, and musical instruments, models for all of which filled his studio. |
| Brand`t canvases hang in nearly all Polish museums and he is represented also in museums and private collections in America and Europe. |
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