Untitled by Heidi Brandt, Watercolor on Paper
Artist Biography
Born in Great Falls, Montana, Heidi Brandt Was educated in Seattle, focusing on commercial art: advertising, industrial design, greeting cards, and illustrations, including a children’s book published in 1946. She worked in charcoal, gouache, stone, watercolor, and woodcuts, as well as photography.
In 1954 and 1961, Brandt won the annual TB Christmas seal design award. In 1956 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a year’s study in Germany at the Stuttgart Art Academy. She studied and exhibited her work in Mexico as well.
From 1947 to 1966, Brandt lived in Colorado Springs with husband Thomas Brandt, a professor of German at Colorado College. She collaborated with Thomas on his book of short poems, published in 1960, that speak of love, nature, and everyday subjects. Her accompanying small black and white woodcuts depict trees, plants, mountains, birds, female nudes, and other images, presented in mid-20th-century modern style. During this period, she designed Christmas cards for LooArt stationers in Colorado Springs.
Denver Public Library’s arts holdings include a watercolor on paper: “Portrait of a Young Black Boy,” dated from the 1950s. The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum includes an untitled Brandt watercolor of a young woman in its exhibit, “Women Expressing Creativity.”
