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Wilhelm Brücke

Wilhelm Brücke (1800–1874), also known as Johann Wilhelm Brücke, was a German painter trained at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. The son of a goldsmith, he pursued an artistic career like his two brothers. He initially specialised in architectural views and became known for his depictions of Berlin before broadening his repertoire to include Italian landscape.

His stays in Italy, from 1829 to 1834 and again from 1839 to 1840, accompanied this development. Landscape with Rural People on the Gulf of Salerno, an oil on canvas measuring 78 by 112 centimetres, exemplifies this interest. The painting was exhibited at the Dresden art exhibition in 1861 and listed by Friedrich von Boetticher in his study of nineteenth-century painting, published in 1891.

This profile brings together identity references for Wilhelm Brücke and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

4auction references
2auction houses
4documented results with prices

Lempertz · Ketterer

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

Ketterer · Lot 618

Blick auf Bad Warmbrunn

Öl auf leichtem Karton

Auction date : 2023-06-10

Published result : 3556 EUR

Hammer price, excluding fees

Estimate : 3000

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Ketterer · Lot 619

Sommerliche Landschaft mit Kornernte

Öl auf leichtem Karton

Auction date : 2023-06-10

Published result : 3556 EUR

Hammer price, excluding fees

Estimate : 3000

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Wilhelm Brücke — Landschaft mit Landbevölkerung am Golf von Salerno
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Lempertz · Lot 1196

Landschaft mit Landbevölkerung am Golf von Salerno

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Landschaft mit Landbevölkerung am Golf von Salerno
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2019-11-16

Published result : 16120 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 13000

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Wilhelm Brücke — Blick auf das Forum Romanum vom Kolosseum
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Lempertz · Lot 1529

Blick auf das Forum Romanum vom Kolosseum

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Blick auf das Forum Romanum vom Kolosseum
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2017-05-20

Published result : 11780 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 4000

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