ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Antonietta Brandeis (1848-1926), was a Czech-born Italian painter of mainly landscapes and city scapes. She was a pupil of Czech artist Karel Javurek of Prague, and in 1867 came to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts. She worked in Italian towns like, Venice, Verona, Bologna, Florence, and Rome. She changed her name to a male pseudonym, Antonio Brandeis, as she was being praised as a ‘woman artist’.

Brandeis, was a prolific vedutisti artist, and often replicated her most popular subjects with only slight variations. She worked on landscapes in en plein air manner and genre scenes, all with meticulous details. In her later years, however, she began to work in an impressionistic manner, rather than attend to fine details.

Brandeis used sparkling colours, contrasts and in later days adopted impasto style, (where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible).

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