Heinrich Bürkel
Humorous German genre and landscape painter
Heinrich Bürkel was a German genre and landscape painter Bürkel was born in 1802 at Pirmasens, in Rhenish Bavaria. He was designed for trade, but devoted every spare minute to drawing. His father's house, being an inn, presented him with subjects in great variety, and so early as his eleventh year he came into conflict with the police on account of a caricature of Napoleon. At fifteen he entered the law, but at twenty he was incited to turn to art, and learned the technicalities of oil painting among friends at Munich, Schleissheim, and in the Netherlands. In time he took to depicting popular and military scenes, cattle, and landscapes, especially winter landscapes. He spent from 1823 to 1832 in Rome, and became on his return a popular artist, famous for his imagination and humour. He was an honorary member of the Academies of Munich, Dresden, and Vienna. He died at Munich in 1869.
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- The Performing Bears Come To An Italian Village 1831
- Scheune mit dreschenden Bauern
- The Hay Harvest
- Beim Hufschmied im Gebirge Ca. 1850
- Bauernhof mit Brunnen 1850
- Garmisch, The Wetterstein Mountains Beyond
- Fähre am Inn 1867
- Der Starnberger See mit Blick auf das Wettersteingebirge 1850
- Der Kochelsee mit den Häusern von Schlehdorf 1863-1867
- Out To Pasture
- Rauferei vor einem Wirtshaus 1853
- Stier und Bauer
- Winter in Rattenberg
- Gebirgsdorf mit Brunnen. Im Hintergrund das Wettersteingebirge 1845
- Ponte Nomentano bei Rom ca 1853-1854
- Harnessed horse
- Blick auf den Monte Circeo ca 1853
- Gebirgsdorf mit Brunnen. Im Hintergrund das Wettersteingebirge 1850-60
- Scene In Front Of An Italian Osteria 1831
- Schmiede in einem Gebirgsdorf 1830