Eduard Weichberger

Alexander Heinrich Wilhelm Eduard Weichberger (5 March 1843, Krauthausen - 19 August 1913, Weimar) was a German painter who specialized in forest landscapes and rural scenes.

He was the sixth child of First Lieutenant and manorial owner Alexander Weichberger and his wife, Amalie.

This was apparently not to his liking as, after only one semester, he left to enroll at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar.

Until 1862, he studied with Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach then, until 1868, with Alexander Michelis and, finally, with Max Schmidt.

He created his initial sketches with brush and paint, focusing on motifs from the Thuringian Forest, Rügen and the Tirol.