Wilhelm Bernatzik

[1] Initially a law student at his father's request,[2] he studied at the Special School for Landscape Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels from 1873 to 1875.

He painted The Vision of St Bernhard in 1882 in Heiligenkreuz Abbey, having been attracted by the mood of the Gothic place.

With the art critic Julius Meier-Graefe he organised a successful Impressionist exhibition in Vienna in 1903.

[5] Bernatzik was primarily a landscape painter, taking motifs from Vienna and Lower Austria and preferring to paint en plein air.

However, he also created genre paintings, including processions in landscapes and symbolic images.