Peter Brandes

Peter Brandes (Mar 5, 1944) is a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist and photographer.

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 windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles. In 1998, he created the enormous Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main Roskilde Railway Station.

Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity. Also the ancient Greek mythology has inspired his art. 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

Brades now lives in Colombes near Paris together with his wife Maja Lise Engelhardt who is also a painter.

Represented:
Statens Museum for Kunst
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Danish Museum of Art & Design
Vejle Kunstmuseum
Kunstmuseet Trapholt
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum
Horsens Kunstmuseum
Randers Kunstmuseum
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum
Skovgaard museum
Funen's Art Museum
Danmarks Keramikmuseum – Grimmerhus
Cornerstone_University Chapel
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