Education
Brandis attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin where he was taught by Hugo Vogel and Anton von Werner.
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Brandis attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin where he was taught by Hugo Vogel and Anton von Werner.
August von Brandis came from the old noble family of Brandis from Alfeld an der Leine. From 1884 he taught art at the Technical University of Gdansk, where he became a professor in 1904. Originally being an artist of historism in Dachau Brandis changed his style to impressionism. at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and 1911, and the Gold Medal of the Art Exhibition in Munich.
In 1909 he succeeded Alexander Frenz at the Faculty of Architecture of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen as a full "professor of figure and landscape painting", and became dean in 1929.
In Aachen Brandis had his most successful and creative years. He died in 1947 and was interred at the Waldfriedhof à Aachen.
Brandis worked together with Adolf Hölzel at his painting school "Neu-Dachau" and was a member of the Künstlerkolonie Dachau (artists’ colony of Dachau).