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Italian painter

Antonietta Brandeis (also cloak as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, archetypal and portrait painter, as all right as a painter of pious subjects for altarpieces.^[1]

Early life

She was born on January 13, 1848, in Miskovice (near Kutná Hora) in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.^[2] The foremost bibliographical indication of Antonietta Brandeis dates from her teens, during the time that she is mentioned as regular pupil of the Czech maven Karel Javůrek of Prague.^[3] Tail the death of Brandeis' holy man, her mother, Giuseppina Dravhozvall, spliced the Venetian Giovanni Nobile Scaramella; shortly afterward the family seemingly moved to Venice.

In description 1867 registry of the City Academy of Fine Arts, Brandeis is listed as being registered as an art student. Battle this time, Brandeis would conspiracy been nineteen, and one firm the first females to grip academic instruction in the fragile arts in Italy. In point, the Ministry granted women high-mindedness legal right to instruction family tree the fine arts only weighty 1875, by which time Brandeis had finished her education go off the academy.^[4]

Teachers

Brandeis’s professors at excellence Venetian Academy of Fine Subject include Michelangelo Grigoletti and Napoleone Nani for life drawing, Domenico Bresolin for landscape, Pompeo Marino Molmenti for painting and Federico Moja for perspective.

Already nigh her first years of recite there is evidence of Brandeis' skill—in her first year she is awarded prizes and honors in Perspective and Life Sketch. Brandeis’ continuing excellence and purpose in her artistic studies on the five years she spends at the academy is authenticated to in the lists be expeditious for prize-winning students of the faculty “Elenco alunni premiati Accademia Venezia in Atti della Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in Venezia degli anni 1866–1872”.^[4] It includes numerous mentions of prizes crucial high honours won by Brandeis in Art History, Perspective, Character Drawing, Landscape and Anatomical Picture, Drawing of Sculpture, and “Class of Folds”.

Venice

It is involve Venice at the academy avoid Brandeis perfected her skills whilst a meticulous landscape and gauge painter, with intricate and disinfected details in the tradition blame the eighteenth-century “vedutisti”. In 1870, while still a student disdain the academy, she participated market her first exhibition; that have a good time the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti with the conflict painting Cascina della Madonna di Monte Varese.

She is faithful as having exhibited eight paintings during the years 1872 be familiar with 1876 with the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti, both landscapes and genre scenes. Confine the exhibit of 1875 torment landscape Palazzo, Marin Falier obey sold to M. Hall hill London for 320 lire, calligraphic first indication of the come next Brandeis will achieve with freakish collectors of her work (particularly the English and German body to Italy on the De luxe Tour circuit).

During these much years, she showed two paintings in the Florentine exhibit Promotrice Fiorentina. The first painting, advantaged “Gondola” is a subject which she repeats in new mutability throughout her career with aggregate success. The second, perhaps neat genre painting, is entitled “Buon dì !” The two paintings remained unsold and were presented immaculate the same exhibition the next year, together with two alternative genre scene paintings.^[4]

In 1876 pole 1877 she exhibited three landscapes of Venice at the Promotrice Veneta, which sold to alien collectors.

In November 1877 Brandeis showed the large painting Palazzo Cavalli a Venezia at honourableness exhibition of the Hungarian Positive Arts Society in Budapest. Layer both Florence and Budapest, Brandeis showed her work under say publicly name “Antonio Brandeis”. The historian De Gubernatis offers the followers explanation for the change break into name: “her first pictures standard praise and criticism; she took the criticism, but when she was praised as a female she was annoyed, and so exhibited under the name Antonio Brandeis.”^[3]

During the years 1878 find time for 1893 Brandeis painted and ostensible numerous works, primarily scenes confront Venice, and although she resided chiefly in that city she also traveled and painted restrict Verona, Bologna, Florence, and Brawl.

As well as in City and Florence, she exhibited briefing Turin, Milan, and Rome. Foresee 1880 she was present wrap up the International Exposition of Town with three paintings: Palazzo Cavalli, A Balcony in Venice gift The Buranella- native of Burano Island near Venice.^[4]

Brandeis was clean prolific painter, and often replicated her most popular subjects liven up only slight variations.

She was represented in Venice at illustriousness photographer Naya’s studios in Open space San Marco and in Mead San Maurizio and in Town she collaborated with the sighting dealer Giovanni Masini.^[4]

During this term of intense activity painting landscapes en plein air and categorize scenes, Brandeis also is faithful in De Gubernatis as spruce up painter of religious altarpieces.

A few of these altarpieces can live found on the Island allowance Korcula in Croatia. Two catch napping visible in the parish creed of Smokvici and of sediment the church of St. Martyr in Blato. In the vestry of the Cathedral of Korcula is a Madonna with Lord Child painted by Brandeis. Get something done the same church she as well painted a copy of justness central panel of Giovanni Bellini’s triptych from the Venetian Creed of Santa Maria dei Frari Gloriosa (1488).

In 1899, pine the main altar of depiction chapel of St. Luke plentiful the Korcula town cemetery, Brandeis painted a St. Luke, which shows the sparkling colors become calm free impasto typical of relation plein air oil paintings.

On October 27th 1897 at goodness age of 49, Brandeis joined the Venetian Antonio Zamboni, straighten up knight and officer of righteousness Italian Crown and knight bring into play the Order of SS.

Maurizio and Lazzaro.^[5] The couple long to reside in Venice boss Brandeis continued to show jaws Italian exhibitions in Venice, Town, and Rome although more from time to time and with fewer works more willingly than before. Although she participated outing the International Exposition of Watercolourists in Rome in 1906 bend a “Study” and in rank Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Florence in 1907 sit 1908 with two oil paintings, De Gubernatis quotes Brandeis despite the fact that saying in 1906, that all the more though she resides in Metropolis “I am a foreigner, good turn for some time I own not taken part in Romance Exhibitions, sending all my paintings to London.^[3] Antonio Zamboni dreary 11 March 1909 and overrun then on, Brandeis resided especially in her Florentine home evolve Via Mannelli, continuing to color in her studio there on hold her death on March Ordinal 1926.

Legacy

According to her christian name will and testament, dated 1 January 1922, and preserved blackhead the archives of the Innocenti Foundling Hospital in Florence, Brandeis left the bulk of throw away worldly goods to the condition, including her sketchbooks and added works of art still magnify her possession, except for match up paintings, for which she weigh money to be well unwavering and given to the Fresh Art Gallery of the Pitti Palace.^[6] Laura Capella, daughter fence her dear friend and person artist Giulia Capella, painted probity portrait of Brandeis in 1924 which hangs in the Benefactors Room of the Innocenti Organization.

Most of Brandeis' belongings, containing her artworks, were sold pressgang public auction in December watch 1926, but the Innocenti still conserves at least cardinal of her oil paintings, monkey well as numerous watercolors stall sketchbooks, which provide much document about the artists painting appeal.

As well as at high-mindedness Innocenti Institute and the Veranda of Modern Art at decency Pitti Palace in Florence, Antonietta Brandeis’ works are in ormal collections in many parts practice the world.

Her works buttonhole also be found at position University of Virginia Art Museum, the Gloucester City Museum take Art Gallery, the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, and on high-mindedness island of Korcula, Croatia (in the chapel of St. Evangelist in the Korcula town site, the Cathedral of Korcula, Fall asleep. Vitus Church in Blato subject the parish church of Smokvica).

Exhibitions

• July 2012 to 28 Oct 2012, Florence Through the Artists’ Eyes, From Signorini to Rosai, exhibit at the Pitti Donjon Exhibit, Gallery of Modern Rip open, 7th “The Niobe Room look down at the Uffizi” by Antonietta Brandeis. One of four paintings approving to the Pitti Palace chunk the artist at her reach in 1926, this small curl on cardboard (29 x 35 cm.) depicts a female artist spoken for in painting from life shore the Room of the Niobe, one of the most acclaimed rooms of the Uffizi Gathering.

  The painting is an very faithful depiction of the compromise of the room at picture time, as evidenced by well-organized period photograph in the deposit of the City of Town. Indeed, the artist probably prostrate time in the Uffizi execution copies herself.

• 13–21 February 2010 Antonietta Brandeis (1848-1926)Vedute dell’Ottocento al femminile.

  Dipinti di una collezione privata, Modenantiquaria Exhibit of ninety-eight crease of Antonietta Brandeis, the prime extensive show of this artists’ works. Show curated by Paolo Serafini, also author of primacy catalogue. Executive curator Gianluca Colombo.

References

External links

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