Antonietta Brandeis (1848 - 1926)

Antonietta Brandeis was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter. After the death of her father, Brandeis’ mother married a Venetian man and their family moved to Venice soon after.

It is in Venice at the Academy of Fine Arts that Brandeis perfected her skills as a meticulous landscape and cityscape painter with intricate details. In 1870, while still a student at the Academy, she participated in her first exhibition with her oil painting ‘Cascina della Madonna di Monte Varese’. From then on Brandeis painted and exhibited numerous works, primarily scenes of Venice, although she also traveled and painted Verona, Bologna, Florence and Rome.

Brandeis was a prolific painter and often replicated her most popular subjects with only slight variations. The 1880’s became an intense period of activity for her, painting many landscapes en plein air and religious altarpieces. After marrying in 1897 Brandeis’ exhibiting became more sporadic and she produced fewer works than before. After her husband passed away in 1909, Brandeis resided primarily in their residence in Florence and continued to paint in her studio there until her death on March 20th 1926.