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Johann Christian Brand (Vienna 1722 - 1795)

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Johann Christian Brand (Vienna 1722 - 1795)
Johann Christian Brand (Vienna 1722 - 1795) View of Schloß Leiben in Lower Austria, with outbuildings: battery tower (16. cent), dairy, forester's hut, and tavern; bottom left labelled:"Das Fürnbergische Schloß Leiben samt Tafern (Taverne), Mäerey (Meierei), Bäckerey und Dörrhaus", signed & dated Brand Prof.1794, oil on canvas, 77 x 110,5 cm, w/ frame (Wo).€ 18.000 - 25.000 US $ 17.820 - 24.750 Provenance: Austrian private collection. Expert's Report: art historical research: Dr. Sylvia Schuster, 15. May 2002; Mag. Martin Bauer: extensive historical commentary,12. May 2002. For additional information please refer to this catalogue's preface. Literature: Sylvia Hofstätter (married name, Dr. Schuster), "Johann Christian Brand 17221795", Diss. Phil., Univ. Wien 1973; Elfriede Baum. Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums, Belvedere, Wien,1980, p.71, 72; Peter Pötschner,"Wien und die Wiener Landschaft", Salzburg,1978; The "Dictionary of Art", London,1996, Vol.4, p. 663, f.; Saur,"Allg. Künstlerlexikon",1996; vol.13, p.597 f. Dr. Sylvia Schuster refers to this and the following painting as "charming documents of late 18th century Austrian landscape painting" and a "valuable addition to our idea of the Late Baroque landscape". She identified the two paintings as belonging to the late period of the landscape- and veduta painter Johann Christian Brand, who in this case demonstrates a "very individual approach". They are not only topographically accurate but beyond that "pervaded by an airy and radiant atmosphere conveying a fundamentally cheerful mood". Brand successfully expresses "a certain longing for the naturalness of the human condition, lost in the wake of the Enlightenment, together with the growing self-confidence of the middle-class ." The artist offers a detailed rendition of the life and labours of everyday people. Sylvia Schuster:"Only recently rediscovered, these painting document the transition of the Late Baroque feudal worldview towards that of the bourgeoisie of the 19th century. A mature painter turns himself into a quiet revolutionary, erecting a monument to the subtle sensibilities of the rural world in the form of a lordly view." Both paintings depict parts of the domain of Joseph Edler von Fürnberg (1742 - 1799), centred on Schloß Leiben in the southern Waldviertel of Lower Austria. He was involved in the timber industry and the postal system, built roads and postal stations, founded the Weitental's first industries, such as a paper mill in Leiben, and expanded the glass-works at Gutenbrunn. And it was Joseph von Fürnberg himself who commissioned Johann Christian Brand to produce the two paintings under discussion. Eventually his unbridled taste for expansion resulted in heavy debt and forced Fürnberg to sell his estate to Emperor Franz I. in 1795. matches lot 207.
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