Peter Brandes

Peter Brandes (5 March 1944 – 4 January 2025) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and photographer.[http://www.kunstonline.dk/diverse/biografier/?id=4610 Kunstonline profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220143352/http://kunstonline.dk/diverse/biografier/?id=4610 |date=20 February 2009 }}Kirkekunst: LYSMETAFYSIK. Når mennesket ikke kan fremstille Gud, må tilfældet tale. Tilfældet er i denne æstetik det, der rydder en lysning i ordenes og billedernes skov, sådan at det hellige kan indfinde sig. Weekendavisen, 19 March 2008, 3 Sektion, KULTUR, Side 3

Biography

Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He has, inter alia, done artwork on Roskilde Domkirke and mosaic (colored glass) windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles.Interview: Peter Brandes Af Sonja Sabinsky. Dagbladenes Bureau, 14 August 2008 In 1998, he created the enormous Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main Roskilde railway station.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitroskilde.com/ln-int/danmark/the-roskilde-jars-gdk619558|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150117095340/http://www.visitroskilde.com/ln-int/danmark/the-roskilde-jars-gdk619558|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 January 2015|title=The Roskilde Jars|publisher=Visit Roskilde|accessdate=11 January 2015 |language=}}

Brandes was self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity. Ancient Greek mythology also inspired his art.Vejle: Peter Brandes skal udsmykke altervæggen i Nørremarkskirken Vejle Amts Folkeblad, 18 September 2009, Vejle, Side 5 Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example Homer's Iliad. A great part of Brandes' ceramic works are inspired by ancient Greek art and mythology.

Brandes died on 4 January 2025, at the age of 80.[https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/kirkekunster-peter-brandes-er-doed Kirkekunster Peter Brandes er død] {{in lang|da}} At the time of his death Brandes lived in Colombes, near Paris, with his wife, Maja Lise Engelhardt, who is also a painter.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Kunstnere,_danske/Maja_Lisa_Engelhardt|title=Maja Lisa Engelhardt|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|accessdate=24 March 2016 |language=da}}