Discover etcher, engraver (printmaker), painter Walter Leistikow

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: Leistikow, Falter

Qualifications: etcher, engraver (printmaker), painter

Nationality/school: German, Russian

Born: Bydgoszcz 1865-10-25
Bromberg in 1865

Deceased: Berlin-Schlachtensee 1908-07-24

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the apothecary Carl Leistikow and his wife Bertha; he married Anna Mohr in 1894

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Bydgoszcz 1872 - 1883
School and private lessons from painter Alexander Flotow
Berlijn 1883 - 1908
Starts at the Royal Academy, but is removed the same year for lack of talent; lessons from the landscapist and marine painter Hermann Eschke and 1885-87 from the Norwegian landscapist Hans Gude; 1890 1890-93 teacher at the KSch Berlin; Beginning of a lifelong friendship with Lovis Corinth, who was to become his biographer. Leistikow operates in the Friedrichshagen district of the young literairy avant-garde around Gerhart Hauptmann, with whom he remains close friends for life; founding member 1892 of the artists group 'Elf'; 1894 marriage to the Danish Anna Mohr; 1898 founding member of the Berliner sezession; 1907 profesor at the Royal Academy; Stayed in the sanatorium Hubertus in Schlachtensee, there suicide by shooting.
1887 - 1888
Fulfils his militairy service
Parijs 1893
study trip
Scandinavië 1894
study trip; They spent the summers of 1895-1906 mostly in Scandinavia (painting stays in Denmark, Visby, Gotland, Stockholm and Norway).
Florence 1900
Trip to Italy, visit to Arnold Böcklin in Fiesole
Weimar (Thüringen) 1903
founding member of the Deutsche Künstlerbund in Weimar; diagnosed with syphilis.
Merano 1904
Sanatorium stay in Meran, increasing health problems due to syphilis

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Eschke, Hermann
Gude, Hans Fredrik
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Gette, Oswald
Hasse, Sella

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), river landscape

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Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 499-500
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 6, p. 553 (Russische school)
Busse 1977 , p. 747
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 172
Bénézit 1999
Trepesch et al. 2007 , passim and p. 174

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Project: Dreaming of Holland

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Creation date: 1992-01-12; Last modified date: 2018-02-11

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