"Capri-Wenk" was the nickname of a German landscape and marine painter born in Bühl, Germany in 1863. He studied under Joseph van Luppen at the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen and later at the Karlsruhe Academy Gustav Schönleber. He found his motifs primarily on Capri, Sicily, on the Amalfi coast, near Naples and Sorrento, as well as on the cliffs of England and Scotland, in Dalmatia, at Lake Constance and in the port of Hamburg.

He made study visits to Great Britain, France and Italy from 1890-92. From 1893, he sent his work to the Munich Glass Palace and from 1899-1910, he was the managing director of the art exhibitions in the Glass Palace Munich. He was a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany and the Munich Artists' Cooperative. He died in Munich in 1934.

Wenk was a landscape painter who studied under Josef Adrian van Luppen and Gustav Schönleber in Antwerp, Düsseldorf, and Karlsruhe. He traveled through France, Great Britain, and Italy between 1890 and 1892, and his works were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Wenk's paintings mainly depict Mediterranean landscapes, particularly the islands of Capri and Sicily.

German painter and marine painter. Studied at the Hogeschool Antwerp, at the Academy in Düsseldorf and at the Academy in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber.

Wenk's oeuvre primarily comprises motifs from the Mediterranean; especially from the islands of Capri and Sicily, but also marine scenes from Lake Constance, the Rhine and the island of Jersey.