RT Article
T1 Abraham Louis Brandt (1717-1797) als Künstler und Kaufmann in Russland
JF Unitas Fratrum
VO 77
SP 23
OP 38
A1 Kröger, Rüdiger 1967-
LA German
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1916948367
AB Abraham Louis Brandt lived and worked in six European countries. Self-taught, he became — in his own estimation — a moderately good artist. To a great extent he was able to earn a living from painting and as a teacher of drawing. Received into the Moravian Church in London in 1743, he occasionally undertook economic tasks within it, albeit with varying degrees of success. Between 1749 and 1757 a modest art academy flourished in Großhennersdorf under his leadership. In 1765 he moved to Russia with the first settlers for the Moravian settlement on the Volga as the Moravians' agent there. An unfruitful lack of employment as an artist in the provinces was followed by activity as a merchant: for more than ten years Brandt ran a store in Moscow in which above all goods from Sarepta were marketed. There he also found better opportunities as an artist. In the last period of his life in Sarepta he produced a range of paintings with biblical themes and thereby continued the tradition of Moravian art from the middle of the century. There was perceptible interest in them on the part of the Kalmyks. The article surveys Brandt's life and work, focusing on his years in Russia. Here, in the ‘East', Brandt had no continuing significance, whereas in the “West' the images that stem from his work (the 1757 Zeremonienbüchlein, views of Moravian settlements) are widely used for illustrative purposes to this day, even though his name has hitherto rarely been mentioned in connection with them.
K1 Artists
K1 BRANDT, Abraham Louis
K1 Merchants
K1 Moravian Church
K1 Painters : History
K1 Teachers
DO 10.71704/unfr.v77i.95954