Peter Brandes is a Danish painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, 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 (colored glass) windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles.

Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

. Also the ancient Greek mythology has inspired his art. Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

’s Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

. A great part of Brandes' ceramic works are inspired by ancient Greek art and mythology

Represented

• Statens Museum for Kunst
  Statens Museum for Kunst
  Statens Museum for Kunst is the Danish national gallery located in Copenhagen....
  
  
• ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
  ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
  ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Aarhus. ARoS is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe, 10 storeys tall with a total of 17,000 m². The museum opened on 8 April 2004 after a construction process that started with Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen winning the design...
  
  
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
  Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
  The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark...
  
  
• Danish Museum of Art & Design
• Vejle Kunstmuseum
• Kunstmuseet Trapholt
• Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum
• Horsens Kunstmuseum
• Randers Kunstmuseum
• Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum
• Skovgaard museum
  Skovgaard museum
  The Skovgaard Museum in Viborg, Denmark, situated in the former town hall from 1728 next to Viborg Cathedral, holds a collection of works by four generations of the Skovgaard family of artists.-The Permanent Collection:...
  
  
• Funen's Art Museum
  Funen's Art Museum
  Funen's Art Museum , formerly The Museum of Funen's Abbey and Museum Civitatis Othiniensis, founded in 1885, is an art museum in Odense, Denmark....
  
  
• Danmarks Keramikmuseum – Grimmerhus