Antonietta Brandeis, (Czechoslovakian, 1849-1910)
The Dogana, Venezia
Oil on panel
12 x 21.4cm (4 3/4 x 8 7/16in).
Private collection
During the fifteenth century, developments in Venice’s commercial activities led to the Sea Customs House, which had previously been near the Arsenal, being transferred to the western point of Dorsoduro. The building as it stands today was completed in 1682, five years before the nearby Basilia of the Salute. Architect Giuiseppe Benoni’s work is characterised by the tower surmounted by a sculptural group representing two Atlases lifting a golden bronze sphere on the top of which is Fortune, which, by turning, indicates the direction of the wind. The building continued to be a customs house, and thus intrinsically linked to the city’s history. More on The Dogana
Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisova
and Antonio Brandeis) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape,
genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for
altarpieces.
She was
born in Miskovice in Eastern Europe. The first bibliographical indication of
Antonietta Brandeis dates from her teens, when she is mentioned as a pupil of
the Czech artist Karel Javurek of Prague. After the death of Brandeis' father,
her mother, Giuseppina Dravhozvall, married the Venetian Giovanni Nobile
Scaramella; shortly afterward the family apparently moved to Venice.
In the
1867 registry of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, Brandeis is listed as being
enrolled as an art student. At this time, Brandeis would have been nineteen,
and one of the first females to receive academic instruction in the fine arts
in Italy. In fact, the Ministry granted women the legal right to instruction in
the fine arts only in 1875, by which time Brandeis had finished her education
at the Academy.
During her first years of study there is evidence of Brandeis'
skill-in her first year she is awarded prizes and honors in Perspective and
Life Drawing. Brandeis’ continuing excellence and diligence in her artistic
studies during the five years she spends at the Academy is attested to in the
lists of prize-winning students. More on Antonietta
Brandeis
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