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Agnes Brandau (1880 - 1946)

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Agnes Brandau is represented with this no doubt rare Alpine woodblock and an etching. A close-up of the etchings reveals this location to be somewhere near the Baltic or Schleswick-Holstein coast. No one ever bothered to research the artist Agnes Brandau, investigating her biography revealed she lived in the same house in Potsdam as painter and graphic artist Karl Holz (1899-1978) who had been a student of Emil Orlik. As student in the VdBK painting and drawing school she also was a student under George Mosson. The connection with Mosson is highlighted in a paper that will appear in this site in due time (but some of it can be read in Vol. 1 of Das Haus der Frau).

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3 Woodblocks prints, 2 etchings and an oil painting titled “Sommer in der Mark”) (North of Berlin) is all I came to know about this artist who died shortly after WW-II behind the Iron curtain.

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Dear print lover, passing-by visitor and reader:

While this new gallery-museum site is under construction (being build-up, stocked and arranged) priority must be given to first add all the represented artists in the index with works from the collection and if possible with the examples from the archives.

During construction the site is open to visitors, questions, feedback and suggestions.

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Read more about the artists, their lives, families and careers in the new and extensive Artist Lexicon: “DAS HAUS DER FRAU, the short biographies” accompanying this exhibition.

Hundreds of new artist biographies, a private publication in 2 Volumes written conveniently in English.

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Agnes Brandau

(Einbeck, south of Hannover 01-08-1880 – 11-12-1946 Bergholzs-Rehbruck near Potsdam)

Painter (flowers and landscape), etcher and printmaker working in Berlin. Daughter of “General-Leutnant”* (2) Carl Emil Wilhelm Brandau (Hanau am Main 12-12-1850 – 1926 Berlin) and (3) Friederike Dorothee Marie Schaaf.

* 1902: General-Major of the 72^thInfantery Brigade. Later “Außer Dienst, Exzelens”, Berlin Wilmersdorf, Meirotterstraße 8.

Student in the “Zeichen- und Malschule des VdBK” under Martin Brandenburg (1870-1919), George Mosson (1851-1933) and Aenny Loewenstein (1871-1925). She is graphically known from just 2 examples of landscape woodblock prints and flower print and two etchings. One auction record shows an impressionist painting titled “Sommer in der Mark”—“Die Mark” referring to county Brandenburg, roughly the province north of Berlin. In works of art the province is often described as “Märksiche Landschaft”.

Secessionist and impressionist painter and also a teacher Walter Leistokow (1865-1908) was a noted painter of this picturesque landscape.

Member of the VdBK 1926-27, exhibited in 1926.

Read more about the Brandau family inVol. 1of Das Haus der Frau.