BRENNER FAMILY PAGE
"Brenner
on the wall used to be central to being a kid"
- Louisville Courier Journal, November 8, 1979
A Biographical Sketch of Carl Brenner
from
The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and
Living Men of the Nineteenth Century. Cincinnati, OH. - 1878
"Carl C. Brenner, Landscape Painter, was born August 1, 1838, at Lauterecken, on the Rhine, in Bavaria, where his father Frederick Brenner, lived, a glazier by trade. He attended the public schools of his native village, from his sixth to his fourteenth year; was considered one of the brightest of his class, and showed such decided talent in drawing that his teacher made application to King Ludwig I for his admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, at Munich. The king was ever ready to assist artistic talent, and readily granted the permission; but here he met with opposition from his father, who, as himself and two other sons were glaziers, desired that Carl also should follow the trade, and refused to allow him to prosecute his art studies. He therefore worked with his father until 1853, when the family emigrated to America, arriving at New Orleans in the Winter of that year, and went to Louisville, Kentucky. Here his talent was discovered by Mr. George P. Doorn, proprietor of the "Anzeiger," who noticed some of his excellent pencil sketches of Mississippi scenery, and at once advised him to become a landscape painter. He therefore made use of his earnings as glazier, and also house and sign painter, to pursue studies for that purpose, and his work since attests the genius that enables him so faithfully to portray nature. Even when employed on sign painting, his artistic workmanship drew much admiration, and many beautiful samples were on exhibition at the Louisville Exposition, and the International, at Vienna. His landscapes have always met with ready sale, and are found in many of the prominent art-galleries of the United States. In social life he is very popular and occupies a high place in the esteem of his countrymen. He was married, in his twenty-sixth year, to Miss Anna Glass, the accomplished daughter of an eminent musician of Louisville."
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Photo courtesy of Gordon Moffett |
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Wife of Carl Brenner Henry Hesse's Mother-in-law Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse
More Anna Brenner Pictures Below |
Anna Glass Brenner, Photo by her son-in-law Henry Hesse
Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse and Mary Jo
Hesse Byrne
More Anna Brenner Pictures Below
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taken by Joseph Proctor Hesse, Sr. marked "Grandma" on back Photo courtesy of
More Anna Brenner Pictures Below |
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with her son Proctor Knott Brenner Photo by Henry Hesse
Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse
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DAUGHTER OF CARL AND ANNA BRENNER, WIFE OF HENRY HESSE Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse
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HENRY HESSE Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse
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PROCTOR KNOTT BRENNER ( FATHER HENRY) at St. Meinrad Abbey in Indiana Photo courtesy of Bill Hesse
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WITH GRANDSONS HENRY AND JOSEPH (RUDY AND JUNIE) Photo from Marie Hesse's Album |