August Bromeis, a landscape painter

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

, who was born at Wilhelmshöhe

Wilhelmshöhe

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe is a palace located in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, Germany. As King of Westphalia, Jérôme Bonaparte renamed it Napoleonshöhe and appointed his Head Chamberlain Heinrich von Blumenthal as its governor, with instructions to supervise extensive renovations.After the...

 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

Joseph Anton Koch

Joseph Anton Koch was an Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement.-Biography:The Tyrolese painter was born in Elbigenalp. He started life tending cattle. Through the recommendation of Bishop Umgelder , he received academic training in the Karlsschule Stuttgart, a strict military academy...

. Bromeis returned to Germany in 1848, and
resided at Frankfort

Frankfurt

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 and Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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 , and at Cassel

Kassel

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, where he was made Instructor and Professor of Painting at the Kunsthochschule Kassel

Kunsthochschule Kassel

Kunsthochschule Kassel is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel .-Notable people:* Bernhard, Count of Bylandt* August Bromeis...

 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 National Gallery
  Alte Nationalgalerie
  The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin is a gallery showing a collection of Classical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork, all of which belong to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The museum is situated on Museum Island, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.- Founding...
  
  at Berlin) ■
• The Grave of Archimedes in Sicily.
• Stormy Landscape.
• Forest near Düsseldorf.