August Brandis

Brandis, August

German painter (1859-1947). Autograph signature. [Postmark: Aachen. Oblong 8vo (postcard). ½ page.
$ 192 / 180 € (84317/BN54820)

Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau. - The most prominent interior painter of German Impressionism, Brandis joined the Dachau artists' colony in 1900 and was appointed a teacher at the faculty of architecture at the Aachen Technical University in 1909, depicting the cathedral of Aachen in several of his works. - Traces of a postmark. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

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