August Brömse

August Brömse (2 September 1873, in Františkovy Lázně – 7 November 1925, in Prague) was a Bohemian German etcher and painter.

After an apprenticeship in his father's workshop, he received lessons at a private school in Berlin, operated by Adolf Schlabitz.

His artistic education was completed with private classes in etching and engraving, taught by Louis Jacoby.

From 1906 to 1908, he worked on another cycle, of ten sheets, called "Das ganze Sein ist flammend Leid" (roughly; The Whole of Existence is Fiery Suffering/Sorrow).

After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, in 1920, he became the honorary chairman of a society of young painters, known as "Die Pilger [cs]' (The Pilgrims), many of whose members were his former students; such as Josef Hegenbarth [de], Mary Duras [de] and Maxim Kopf.