Peter Brandes

Peter Brandes (5 March 1944 – 4 January 2025) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and photographer.

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.

[5] Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example Homer's Iliad.

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

[6] At the time of his death Brandes lived in Colombes, near Paris, with his wife, Maja Lise Engelhardt, who is also a painter.

Brandes in 2014
From Northern Lights Cathedral in Alta, Norway.
Photo: Andreas Haldorsen, 2015
Brandes in 2020