Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mark Staff Brandl is an American-born artist, art historian and art critic now living primarily in Switzerland. Raised in Pekin, Illinois, Brandl is the son of Earl and Ruth Brandl, and brother of Marcia Brandl Willhite. He lived for many years in Chicago, Illinois, where his career in fine art began. Brandl has lived primarily in Trogen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland since 1988. He studied art, art history, literature and literary theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State University, and Columbia Pacific University, and completed his Ph.D. in art history at the University of Zurich in 2011.