HENRY BROKMAN

Artist painter

Henry Brokman was born in Copenhagen in 1868. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, then travelled around Europe, going to Paris in 1886. There, he continued his training at the Académie Jalian and discovered plein-air painting. From 1890, he traveled to Sicily and then North Africa, where he married a wealthy American woman and had a son. Brokman exhibited at the Salon in 1903. He died in Italy in 1933. Henry Brokman was a Danish romantic and orientalist painter of the 19th and 20th centuries, best known for his landscape paintings. His famous works include "Young Girl under Olive Trees - Menton", "Seated Arab" and "The Sailor's Tomb, Romantic Style". Henry Brokman was particularly associated with Caspar David Friedrich and Turner.