Heinrich Theodor Wehle

Heinrich Theodor Wehle, or Hendrich Božidar Wjela, in Sorbian (7 March 1778 in Förstgen, Görlitz – 1 January 1805, Bautzen) was a German-Sorbian landscape painter and etcher.

His mother, Rahel Dorothea, was a daughter of Heinrich Gottlob Rieschke, the financial administrator of Görlitz.

Finally, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he learned history painting from Giovanni Battista Casanova, and continued his landscape studies with Johann Christian Klengel [de].

His academic achievements led to his being hired as a draftsman at the Chalkographische Gesellschaft zu Dessau [de], a publishing company, in 1799.

Soon, he received a commission to accompany an expedition to Russia's Asian possessions, led by the naturalist, Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin, to document the exotic landscapes.