Peter Brandes (born 5 March 1944 in
Assens,
Denmark
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) is a Danish
painter,
sculptor
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,
ceramic artist and
photographer
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Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He has, ''inter alia'', done artwork on
Roskilde Domkirke
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and mosaic (colored glass) windows in a church at
Nordkap and the church
Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles.
[''Interview: Peter Brandes'' Af Sonja Sabinsky. Dagbladenes Bureau, 14.08.2008] In 1998, he created the enormous
Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main
Roskilde Railway Station
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Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from
Christianity
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. Ancient Greek mythology has also inspired his art. Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example
Homer
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’s
Iliad
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. A great part of Brandes' ceramic works are inspired by ancient Greek art and mythology.
Brades now lives in
Colombes near Paris together with his wife
Maja Lise Engelhardt who is also a painter.
Represented
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Statens Museum for Kunst
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ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
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Danish Museum of Art & Design
*Vejle Kunstmuseum
*Kunstmuseet Trapholt
*Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum
*Horsens Kunstmuseum
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Randers Kunstmuseum
*Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum
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Skovgaard museum[''Peter Brandes udstiller på Skovgaard Museet'' Viborg Nyt, 18.06.2008, Side 4]
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Funen's Art Museum
*Danmarks Keramikmuseum – Grimmerhus
*Cornerstone_University, Cornerstone University Chapel
References
1944 births
Living people
People from Assens Municipality
20th-century Danish photographers
21st-century Danish photographers
Danish photographers
20th-century Danish painters
21st-century Danish painters
Abstract painters
Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
20th-century Danish sculptors
Male sculptors
Lutheran art
Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists
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