The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Burger, Ludwig

BURGER, Ludwig, German historical painter and illustrator: b. Cracow, 19 Sept. 1825; d. Berlin, 22 Oct. 1884. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy, at the same time working at book-illustrating; he was also a pupil of Couture in Paris. Among his best drawings are the illustrations for the works of La Fontaine and a collection of 20 plates known as ‘Die Kanone.’ After 1869 he devoted himself to decorative painting, his most important work in this line being the walls and ceilings in the Berlin City Hall (1870) and the colossal figures symbolizing the warlike virtues at the School of Cadets at Lichterfelde (1878).