August Freiherr von Ramberg was a German - Austrian naval, still life - and landscape painter as well as an officer in the Austrian Navy.

August von Ramberg was the nephew of the kuk general of the cavalry Hermann von Ramberg (1820–1899) and the painter and draftsman Arthur von Ramberg (1819–1875).

August was interested in drawing and paper cutting from a young age. He graduated from the Imperial and Royal Naval Academy in Fiume and looked as in 1885 midshipman from. In the years 1885 and 1886 he sailed on board the corvette "Donau" Latin and North America. In 1890 August von Ramberg completed the torpedo and sea ​​mine course. For shorter periods of time he was used as a commander of torpedo boats and as a navigation officer on larger ships. In 1892/93 he accompanied Empress Elisabeth on board the cruiser SMSthe world tour of the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand. On land he was employed in the Naval Technical Committee in Pola.

The year 1904 was the turning point in the life of August von Ramberg, because from this point on he was given leave of absence due to illness and devoted himself only to marine painting, which he learned himself through self- teaching. From 1908 he lived on his estate in Ragusa.

At the beginning of the First World War, Ramberg was reactivated with the official name and official use of "marine painter". In 1918 he was promoted to corvette captain and lived in Gmunden in Upper Austria after the end of the war.