Wilhelm Behm studied first at the Technical School and then continued for six years at the Royal Academy of the Arts, 1879-85. In his early painting, Behm worked on a maneuver that lay close to Alfred Wahlberg's gray-tinted color scheme. The years in Paris 1889-90 changed his palette. Through the touch with French art, Behm was taken on an impressionistic lightning with a soft and warm color. .

Towards the end of the century, Behm was influenced by the Artistic Association's national mood art. He paints with fast, free playing brush strokes Swedish archipelago wars and fields. The tradition of Carl Larsson's Swedish summer dams lives on at Behm. .

In summary, his artwork is summarized in the Swedish artist's dictionary, Allhems publisher: "Wilhelm Behm's artistic act has been shaken by the groundbreaking artist names from the 80's and 90's, but with his deliberate, intrusive nature study, he, as a well-sophisticated electoral painter, takes a prominent place among the artists who speak and speak mildly about the Swedish Nature's idyll and poverty. " .

After his death in 1934, Wilhelm Behm was noted as outstanding landscape painter with two memorial exhibitions. First on Color and Form 1939 and then 1942 at Konstnärshuset.

His works are available in several public collections, including Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde.

Wilhelm Behm (Vilhelm Behm) is described by his contemporaries as a reserved, low-key landscape painter strongly inspired by 1880s outdoor painting. In addition to some time in Paris in his youth, he spent his entire life in Stockholm and the surrounding area. He received his first education at the Technical School in the years 1878-1879 and was then admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating from the academy, he traveled in 1889 to the capital of art, Paris. After Behm's death, a memorial exhibition was arranged at Färg och Form in 1939 and three years later his artistic legacy was exhibited at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm.