Paul Bürde

Paul Eduard Maximilian Bürde (1819[1] or 28 November 1830;[2] – 23 May 1874) was a German painter and illustrator.

[3] His uncle was the Berlin academy professor and animal painter Friedrich Leopold Bürde (1792-1849), husband of the singer and pianist Jeanette Milder-Bürde.

[5][6] At the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin he made a portrait of his teacher Eduard Daege.

[7] Well known is his picture Diskussion im Frankfurt Parliament, in which Bürde as an eyewitness of the parliamentary sessions portrayed many important politicians of the German revolutions of 1848-1849.

(1871), by which William I, German Emperor was put in a row with Martin Luther, Frederick the Great and Field Marshal Blücher because of the foundation of the German Empire and thus painterly reproduced the Borussian historiography of Heinrich von Treitschke.