Wilhelm Brücke

Johann Wilhelm Brücke (4 March 1800, Stralsund - 1 April 1874, Berlin) was a German landscape and architecture painter.

After completing school in Stralsund, he enrolled at the Prussian Academy of the Arts where he studied under Johann Erdmann Hummel.

He remained there for almost five years, producing landscapes and vedute of Roman architecture.

Upon his return to Berlin, he set himself up as a free-lance artist and regularly took part in major exhibitions at the Academy.

He found his own style early on and his work is easily recognizable from his use of reddish, sunset colors.