Heinrich Bürkel

Place: Pirmasens

Born: 1802

Death: 1869

Biography:

Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) 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 o...