Ferdinand Leeke
Ferdinand Leeke (April 7, 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 Johann Herterich (1843-1905), 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.
Gallery
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The Mermaid and the Satyr, by Ferdinand Leeke (1917)
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Tristan und Isolde by Ferdinand Leeke
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'Lohengrin by Ferdinand Leeke
References
- ↑ Horizon, vol 23, p242
External links
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