August von Brandis

August Friedrich Carl von Brandis (12 May 1859 in Berlin-Haselhorst – 18 October 1947 in Aachen) was a German impressionist painter, best known for his interiors.

Brandis attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin where he was taught by Hugo Vogel and Anton von Werner.

Originally being an artist of historism in Dachau Brandis changed his style to impressionism.

In 1909 he succeeded Alexander Frenz at the Faculty of Architecture of the RWTH Aachen as a full "professor of figure and landscape painting", and became dean in 1929.

In Kaldenkirchen his parents-in-law had a house with a large garden, August von Brandis spent many time in the Rokoko pavilion.