August Bromeis

Who was August Bromeis?

August Bromeis, a landscape painter, 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 Frankfort and Düsseldorf, and at Cassel, where he was made Instructor and Professor of Painting at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in 1867. He died at Cassel in 1881. His most successful pictures were idealized landscapes, for example:

⁕The Campagna at Rome.

⁕Italian Landscape, 1869 ■

⁕The Grave of Archimedes in Sicily.

⁕Stormy Landscape.

⁕Forest near Düsseldorf.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.