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3 unusual facts about Petr Brandl


Jan Kryštof Liška

His influence is evident especially in the fresco painter Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, and also with Petr Brandl.

Petr Brandl

His mother was from Czech peasant family, that lived in Přestanice (a village in Bohemia, now part of Hlavňovice).

Petr Brandl (Peter Johannes Brandl or Jan Petr Brandl) (October 24, 1668 – September 24, 1735) was a painter of the late Baroque, famous in his time but - due to isolation behind the Iron Curtain - rather forgotten until recently.



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