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Gerard Brender à Brandis (1942 - ) is a Canadian wood engraver and bookwright. He was born in the Netherlands in 1942 and moved to Canada with his family in 1947 at the age of 5, living in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Burlington, Ontario. Brender à Brandis obtained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from McMaster University in 1965. During this time, he began wood engraving. After graduation, he moved to Carlisle, Ontario, where he established the Brandstead Press in 1969. In early books printed by Brandstead Press, Brender à Brandis’ wood engravings would accompany poetry and short texts written by family members or other poets. In 1980, The Porcupine’s Quill published Wood, Ink and Paper, containing 80 reproductions of Brender à Brandis’ engravings. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he provided wood engraving illustrations for publishers such as The Borealis Press, McClelland and Stewart, and the Quarry Press. In 1986, Brender à Brandis closed the Brandstead Press, and moved to Stratford, Ontario in 1991, where he currently resides and maintained an open studio until 2019.