Heinrich Breling

Heinrich Christoph Gottlieb Breling (14 October 1849, Burgdorf - 6 September 1914, Fischerhude, near Ottersberg) was a German painter of historical and genre scenes.

He was the son of a border customs officer and guard and spent his childhood in the village of Fischerhude where he practiced drawing while herding the farmers' geese.

After Ludwig's mysterious death, Breling returned to Northern Germany and settled in Hanover while spending the summers in Fischerhude, where he turned to impressionism to render his new interest: the men and women of the land pursuing their daily lives.

The art world largely ignored these paintings, and with the loss of his generous income from the king, Breling had to face the new reality that he was not earning.

In 1908, Heinrich moved with wife and six daughters into their new house in Fischerhude, right on the Bredenau, the long street that leads into the open fields.

Louise Modersohn-Breling (1882-1950) began as an opera singer but turned to painting after she became the third wife of painter Otto Modersohn.