Gustav Wendling

Gustav Wendling (7 June 1862, Büddenstedt - 17 October 1932, Königslutter) was a German history, landscape and marine painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

At the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied landscape painting with Eugen Dücker.

In 1889, together with Heinrich Hermanns, Olof Jernberg, Helmuth Liesegang, August Deusser, Otto Heichert and Arthur Kampf, he helped co-found the "St. Lucas Club", which was opposed to the exhibition practices of the academies and, among other things, sought to revive the art of printmaking.

From 1898 to 1902, together with Hugo Ungewitter [de] and Clarenbach, he created a 15 x 120 meter (roughly 49 x 394 ft.) cyclorama, depicting General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crossing the Rhine near Kaub in 1814.

Originally created for a trade and industrial fair in Düsseldorf, it toured Germany and drew large crowds in Berlin.