[1] "Bredow’s best works are classical in their simplicity and balance and are equal or quite often even superior to Schmidt-Rottluff’s late black-rimmed watercolour paintings, for instance".
[3] 1930–1934: he studied at the arts and crafts school in Berlin and took lessons with the graphic artist Hans Orlowski (1894–1967), the costume and stage designer Harold Bengen and the painter Max Kaus (1891–1977).
1949: he became teacher for costume design and taught drawing and painting at the municipal technical college for textile industry and fashion.
The artist's written estate has been kept safe in the archive for fine arts of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1992.
From this he developed his post-expressionist style, whose foundations he laid in 1955 and which led to artistically mature and independent late works of art from 1960/1 until his early death in 1973.
As a watercolour artist he favoured the condensed visual experience of landscape or still life and in oil paintings the depiction of idealised or sometimes abstract females.
In 1955 he took up an invitation from consul Thomas Entz, a ship-owner from Flensburg, and went on a cruise across the Mediterranean to Algeria, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.