Ferdinand Leeke

German painter

Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

Wagner Pictures

  • 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

Gallery

  • The Mermaid and the Satyr (1917)
    The Mermaid and the Satyr (1917)
  • Tristan und Isolde
    Tristan und Isolde
  • Lohengrin
    Lohengrin
  • Wotan and Brünnhilde (1930)
    Wotan and Brünnhilde (1930)
  • Lohengrin (1916)
    Lohengrin (1916)

References

  1. ^ Horizon, vol 23, p242
  2. ^ "19th Century Paintings - Ferdinand Leeke - Dorotheum". www.dorotheum.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. ^ "Ferdinand Leeke". Wagner's Ring. 4 June 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ferdinand Leeke.
  • Scenes from Wagnerian Operas
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
International
  • ISNI
  • VIAF
    • 2
National
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • United States
  • Czech Republic
  • Poland
Artists
  • Musée d'Orsay
  • RKD Artists
  • ULAN
People
  • Deutsche Biographie