Leopold Hugo Bürkner was a German painter and illustrator , in later years, professor and head of xylography at the Dresden Academy .Hugo Bürkner was a pupil of the court painter Heinrich Beck , from whom he received private lessons. Later he attended the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting and was a student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn , before he went to Dresden 1840th Here he came with Ludwig Richter in contact, with whom he later worked. In 1846 he became a teacher and nine years later a professor at the studio for xylography at the Dresden Art Academy. Together with Robert Reinick he worked with at the German Youth calendar 1847 and 1848, that of Georg Wigand in Leipzig was issued. Hugo Bürkner was an honorary member of the Vienna Academy . Among his students was from 1894 Georg Erler . Hugo Bürkner was instrumental in the development of woodblock printing in Germany. Of the approximately 11,000 woodcuts that emerged under his supervision, graced many popular children’s books of the 19th century. Hugo Bürkner whose brother Adolph Bürkner (1824-1898) was known as an architect, died in 1897 in Dresden and was at the local Trinity Cemetery buried. In Dresden, there are now more objects that were named after him, such. As the Hugo-Bürkner Street and the Hugo-Bürkner Park .