Ferdinand Leeke

vieta: Burg Bei Magdeburg

gimęs: 1859

mirtis: 1937

biografija:

Ferdinand Leeke 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.
The Mermaid and the Satyr, by Ferdinand Leeke (1917)
Tristan und Isolde by Ferdinand Leeke
'Lohengrin by Ferdinand Leeke

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