August Bromeis, a

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

, who was born at Wilhelmshöhe in 1813, first studied in the academy of his native town, then at Munich, from 1831 to 1833, in which year he went to Rome, where he was much influenced by the style of J. A. Koch. Bromeis returned to Germany in 1848, and resided at

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and

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, and at

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, where he was made Instructor and Professor of Painting at the Academy in 1867. He died at Cassel in 1881. His most successful pictures were idealized landscapes, for example: *''The Campagna at Rome'' (in the Town Gallery at Cassel). *''Italian Landscape'', 1869 (in the

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at Berlin) *''The Grave of Archimedes in Sicily''. *''Stormy Landscape''. *''Forest near Düsseldorf''. He is associated with the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bromeis, August 1813 births 1881 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters German landscape painters 19th-century German male artists Artists from Kassel Düsseldorf school of painting

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