Wilhelm Amberg

He was educated by the painters Carl Joseph Begas in Berlin and Léon Cogniet in Paris (1845).

Wilhelm Amberg has won many awards and from 1886 was a Member of the Senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts, Berlin.

The painting depicting A reading from the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther shows five young girls seated in a romantic spot in the nature, who went outdoors to read from this novel.

She also has one, that is beside her placed on the vegetation overgrown with moss she sits on ... all the young girls are moved by the lecture.

Werther shoots himself with a pistol after he is rejected by the woman he loves, and shortly after its publication there were many reports of young men using the same method to kill themselves in an act of hopelessness.