Ferdinand Leeke
Deceased Person
1859 – 1923
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Who was Ferdinand Leeke?
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 Johann Herterich, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner, 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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- Born
- Apr 7, 1859
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Died
- 1923
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on July 23, 2013
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