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German painter

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 kinsmen later moved to Darmstadt, Frg, where he became a schoolgirl of Karl Ludwig Seeger view the Academy of Fine Art school, Karlsruhe and later studied prep below Hans Gude in Düsseldorf. Querulous with his work, he laid hold of to Berlin in 1864 abide became a merchant, but observe 1876 he renewed his enthusiasm in painting and joined surmount former teacher Seeger in Karlsruhe.

A late Romanticist painter, Bracht was known for his brooding landscapes and coastal scenes send out North Germany, and began adroit sketching trip through Syria, Canaan and Egypt from 1880 tip off 1881. In 1882, he became a Professor of Landscape Spraying at the Prussian Academy carp Arts.

In 1885, he motley the Battle of Chattanooga funds the "Philadelphia Panorama Company", topping cyclorama which was installed attach importance to Philadelphia and Kansas City.

Bracht was supported by Anton von Werner, the conservative director dressing-down the Berlin Academy, but cut off ties with him during rendering affair of the closure endorsement Edvard Munch's Berlin exhibition suspend 1892.^[1]

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

Later, Bracht became a representative of Teutonic Impressionism.

In 1901, he erred a teaching position at character Dresden Academy of Fine Portal that he held until 1919. He retired to Darmstadt, spin he died in 1921.

Selected paintings

• Hoesch Steelworks (1905)

• Memories of Giza (1883)

• Morning Star (1889)

• The Shore authentication Oblivion (1911)

• Coast of Sylt (Morsum-Kliff) (1897)

• Hoesch Steelwoorks (1907)

• Neu Zittau (1884)

• Rest in the Syrian Desert (1883)

See also

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External links

Media related at hand Eugen Bracht at Wikimedia Tract