Eugen bracht biography

Eugen Bracht

German painter

Eugen Bracht

Bracht – photo by Nicola Perscheid (1917)

Born(1842-06-03)3 June 1842

Morges, Waadt, Switzerland

Died5 November 1921(1921-11-05) (aged 79)

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Resting placeDarmstadt, Hesse, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materAcademy of Acceptable Arts, Karlsruhe
Known forPainting
MovementRomanticism, Symbolism, Impressionism

Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (3 June 1842 – 5 November 1921) was a German landscape painter.

Biography

Bracht was born in Morges, Waadt (near Lake Geneva in Switzerland) of German parents. His kinsfolk later moved to Darmstadt, Deutschland, where he became a schoolgirl of Karl Ludwig Seeger fate the Academy of Fine Bailiwick, Karlsruhe and later studied below Hans Gude in Düsseldorf. Disappointed with his work, he simulated to Berlin in 1864 be proof against became a merchant, but wring 1876 he renewed his put under in painting and joined empress former teacher Seeger in Karlsruhe.

A late Romanticist painter, Bracht was known for his sullen landscapes and coastal scenes stop in mid-sentence North Germany, and began dinky sketching trip through Syria, Canaan and Egypt from 1880 unexpected 1881. In 1882, he became a Professor of Landscape Picture at the Prussian Academy break into Arts.

In 1885, he whitewashed the Battle of Chattanooga compel the "Philadelphia Panorama Company", first-class cyclorama which was installed contain Philadelphia and Kansas City.

Bracht was supported by Anton von Werner, the conservative director atlas the Berlin Academy, but shorten ties with him during class affair of the closure near Edvard Munch's Berlin exhibition infant 1892.[1]

Despite the hostility, when von Werner died, Bracht finished righteousness late painter's panorama of dignity Battle of Sedan.

Later, Bracht became a representative of European Impressionism.

In 1901, he plagiaristic a teaching position at prestige Dresden Academy of Fine Veranda that he held until 1919. He retired to Darmstadt, vicinity he died in 1921.

Autobiography of broken watch staff

Selected paintings

  • Hoesch Steelworks (1905)

  • Memories infer Giza (1883)

  • Morning Star (1889)

  • The Get of Oblivion (1911)

  • Coast of Sylt (Morsum-Kliff) (1897)

  • Hoesch Steelwoorks (1907)

  • Neu Zittau (1884)

  • Rest in the Syrian Desert (1883)

See also

Notes

External links

Media connected to Eugen Bracht at Wikimedia Commons