August Brömse
August Brömse (2 September 1873, in Františkovy Lázně – 7 November 1925, in Prague) was a Bohemian German etcher and painter. Life and work He was the son of Karl Johann Brömse, a decorative painter from Rostock. After an apprenticeship in his father's workshop, he received lessons at a private school in Berlin, operated by Adolf Schlabitz. From 1892, he attended the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Academy of Arts, where he studied with Woldemar Friedrich, Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, and the animal painter, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim. He also took courses in anatomy from Rudolf Virchow. His artistic education was completed with private classes in etching and engraving, taught by Louis Jacoby. After that, he returned home and worked as a freelance artist. It was there, from 1902 to 1903, that he created his first large etching cycle, "Death and the Maiden (motif), Death and the Maiden", in fourteen sheets. It was awarded a gold medal in 1906, at an exhibition in the Palais du ...
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