Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School
He took his first art lessons at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts, where he studied with Günther Gensler and Friedrich Heimerdinger. On their recommendation, he transferred to the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School in 1870, where his teachers were Albert Baur, Karl Gussow and the history painter Ferdinand Pauwels. Baur would be particularly influential in forming Brütt's mature style.