August Bromeis

August Bromeis ( born November 28, 1813 in Wilhelm near Kassel, † January 12, 1881 in Kassel ) was a German painter.

August Bromeis should like his father Johann Conrad Bromeis to be an architect, but he preferred painting. His first studies he made at the Academy in Kassel. In 1831 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he further formed under Leo von Klenze, Friedrich von Gärtner and Domenico Quaglio and was very encouraged and influenced by Christian Morgenstern and Eduard Schleich.

1833 emigrated Bromeis to Rome, where he remained 15 years, especially to Joseph Anton Koch, the restorer of the stylistic landscape, joined. This direction he remained faithful in later life. After returning to Germany, he lived for a time in Frankfurt and settled in 1857 in Dusseldorf down. 1867 Bromeis took a chair at the Academy in Kassel, where taught until his death.

Reception

His mood landscapes both from Italy and from Germany are stylishly composed, but strive more for the overall impression of nature as on the exact reproduction of the individual.

Works (selection)

• Dusk.
• In Olevano in Sabinergebirge.
• From the Goshawk forest.
• Landscape of the Roman Campagna. 1862 ( Kunstverein Kassel).
• Grave of Archimedes from Sicily.
• An Italian landscape with a Calabrian shepherds. 1869 ( National Gallery in Berlin).