Wilhelm Krause (painter)

Wilhelm August Leopold Christian Krause (27 February 1803, Dessau - 8 January 1864, Berlin) was a German landscape and marine painter.

He received his initial lessons in art from Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, who was sufficiently impressed by his talent that he helped him obtain a Ducal Scholarship; enabling him to study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, beginning in 1821.

Those efforts were in vain so, in 1824, he relocated to Berlin, where he found employment with the stage designer and diorama painter, Karl Wilhelm Gropius.

He was the first to introduce marine painting to Berlin and attracted a group of followers there; notably Hermann Eschke, Eduard Hildebrandt, Charles Hoguet [de] and Fritz Bamberger.

he published a book in 1846: Painting Techniques of the Masters of the 15th to 18th Century, rediscovered by Prof. Wilhelm Krause in Berlin.