Carl August Brandt, originally Svensson, born February 14, 1871 in Locketorp, Västergötland, died February 13, 1930 in Stockholm was a Swedish artist. Carl Brandt painted landscape motifs, mostly in pastels, but he also did oil paintings. In all his production he was consistently a romantic landscape painter. There were both summer and winter motifs with red cabins among tall slender pines by a lake, there were coastal motifs with rocks and skerries and there were mountain motifs. Often he showed sunsets with orange skies. Biography Brandt was the son of the tailor Gustaf Svensson from Örebro and his wife Anna Larsdotter from Kumla.

 

The family lived for a short time in Närkes Kil, but from 1872 were registered in the church register in Örebro. Brandt had to take care of himself early on and as a teenager he was an apprentice painter. As an 18-year-old, he acquired a workshop at Vasatorget in Örebro and made a living there as a craft painter, but he had also started painting watercolors and pastels, which provided extra income. Around 1890, he took the stage name Carl Brandt, which then followed him in the church records throughout his life. In 1894, he married Ida Rudbeck, two years older, from a noble family. The couple moved to the Töreboda tract in 1899 and to Filipstad in 1901. Carl Brandt was now a popular landscape painter and carried out e.g. wall paintings in oil in Stora Hotellet's dining room in Örebro around 1900. They were later destroyed by a fire.

 

The couple lived in Filipstad for almost nine years and Carl Brandt was very productive as an artist. He worked in pastel, watercolor and oil. He was also hired from 1904 by several postcard publishers as a postcard artist. For a few years, the writing of postcards had increased enormously and during his life he created more than 200 motifs on postcards in various formats. His wife Ida died in 1910 and Carl Brandt moved from Filipstad to Stockholm. In Stockholm, he met a lady eleven years younger, cashier Axelina Karlsson-Söderberg.

 

They married at the end of 1910 and in 1912 they moved from Stockholm to Riddersvik, now Hässelby Villastad. From 1924 they lived in a villa with a large garden designed by the glass artist Simon Gate. It was considered the most beautiful villa in Hässelby. Carl Brandt was amused by Hässelby's beautification and well-being and participated in many local activities. In 1924, he executed a large painting with winter motifs that covers a large part of a wall in Hässelby Villastad's cinema room and is still there. Brandt is represented at, among others, the Örebro County Museum[3]. Carl Brandt died of a gallstone disease. He was buried at the North Cemetery, but the headstone has now been removed. The widow sold the house in Hässelby and moved to Landskrona after a couple of years.