Anthony Brandt (1925 - 2009)

Anthony Brandt was born in 1925 and apart from the war years he spent most of his early life in London. In 1956 his life changed forever, when he met a highly sought after artists’ model and ballerina called Mitzi. At the time, she was modeling and dating the famous artist Sir William Russell Flint, but instantly fell in love with Anthony Brandt. A year later they were living together, and on the thirtieth anniversary of their first meeting they were married. Mitzi inspired Brandt’s lifelong obsession with the human figure, and she was the subject of many of his paintings and drawings. In 1975 they bought an old derelict chapel in the midst of the scenic Brecon Beacons in Wales. Brandt converted part of the building into a studio and he lived and worked there with Mitzi until his death in 2009. From an early age Anthony Brandt displayed a talent as an artist and prior to World War II he won an art competition for children in a n