Ferdinand Leeke
Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas. A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843–1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838–1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.
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Ferdinand Leeke
Ferdinand Leeke · Bildersaal Deutscher Geschichte. Bär, Adolf, and Paul Quensel. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1890. Online · Public domain
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- 1859 · Burg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator · graphic artist · printmaker
- Fields
- painting · graphics
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Languages
- German
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Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas. A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843–1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838–1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.
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Ferdinand Leeke studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting and graphics. Work by Ferdinand Leeke is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections, Führermuseum and Alte Nationalgalerie.
• Rienzi: Act IV, Scene II • The Flying Dutchman: Act III, Finale • Tannhauser: Act III, Scene I. • Lohengrin: Act III, Finale • The Rheingold: Scene II • The Valkyrie: Act I. • Siegfried: Act II • Götterdämmerung: Act III • Tristan and Isolde: Act II • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Act III
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• Illustration — The Mermaid and the Satyr (1917) • Illustration — Tristan und Isolde • Illustration — Lohengrin • Illustration — Wotan and Brünnhilde (1930) • Illustration — Lohengrin (1916)
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Ferdinand Leeke is recorded with the occupation graphic artist. Recorded as painter, illustrator, graphic artist and printmaker.
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1859
Ferdinand Leeke was born on 1 January 1859.
1937
Ferdinand Leeke died on 16 November 1937.
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