The New International Encyclopædia/Brandt, Josef von
BRANDT,  (1841— ). A Polish
painter, born at Szczebrzeszyn, near Warsaw. He
at first devoted himself to engineering, and it was
not until 1862 that he seriously took up painting
under Piloty and Franz Adam in Munich.
His subjects are taken principally from the
military life of the Seventeenth Century,
although several of his most charming productions
deal also with the life of the Polish peasantry.
The following is a partial list of his more
important works: “Polish Peasants Before an Inn”
(1870); “Episode from the Relief of Vienna”
(1870); “Cossack Camp in Seventeenth
Century” (1872); “Polish Fair” (1872); “Battle
of Vienna in 1683” (1872); “Tartar Battle”
(1878); “Critical Moment” (1884); “Cossacks
Caught in the Snow in the Ukraine” (1885).