Andreas Brünniche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish painter
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Place of Birth: Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark
About Andreas Brünniche
- Andreas Pedersen Brünniche (April 4, 1704 in Roskilde – 4 November 1769 in Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter, active in the period called either late Baroque or early Rococo. Andreas Brünniche was the son of Peder Jacobsen Brünniche and Anne Marensdatter.
- He came to Copenhagen, where he got a job with Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger and from 1737 at Johann Salomon Wahl's workshop.
- As his student, he was a much sought portrait painter in the capital, but also raised customers in many other provinces.
- He was also influenced by baroque masters such as Andreas Møller and Balthasar Denner and by rococo style under a more mature age influenced by Johan Hörner and CG Pilo.
- Brünniche was a skilled colorist, his ability to convincingly reproduce the tones of the sitter's skin and individualize the people portrayed made him popular and demanded especially among the local nobility.
- He portrayed some of the most influential people of Denmark at the time. He married on 7 June 1735 in Copenhagen with Margaret Hvass Thrane (February 17, 1703 in Aarhus – November 26, 1762 in Copenhagen), daughter of merchant Morten Mortensen Thrane and Mette Sørensdatter Lyngbye.
- He fathered zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich and painter Peter Brünniche. Andreas Brünniche is buried at the Trinitatis Church.
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