"Christian Wilberg (20 November 1839 in Havelberg – 3 June 1882 in Paris) was a German painter.
Wilberg was born in 1839 in Havelberg in the Margraviate ...
of Brandenburg (nowadays Saxony-Anhalt) where he lived until 1861. He was originally a house painter before moving to Berlin where he studied painting at Eduard Pape´s atelier. After 18 months, Pape suggested to Wilberg that he should study further with Paul Gropius, where he acquired a good knowledge of perspective and architecture. After finishing his apprenticeship under Oswald Achenbach´s supervision in Düsseldorf in 1870, Wilberg traveled through Northern Germany and spent two years in Venice. Even after returning to Berlin, Wilberg continued visiting Italy as his favourite field of art was Italian architecture. Amongst his most important works in this field are his paintings of St Mark´s Basilica in Venice and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo." - (en.wikipedia.org 29.01.2020)
