Ferdinand Leeke
Painted Wagnerian opera scenes
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.
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Master student
- Ludwig von Herterich Student
- Alexander von Wagner Master
Artworks by this artist
- The hunter 1885
- Peaceful Evening
- Schneewittchen 1890
- Wotan’s farewell 1910
- Europa auf dem Stier Ca. 1910
- Richard Wagner, Götterdämmerung, Act I, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
- The Spring Festival of Flora before the Acropolis
- Siegfried in der Schmiede 1900
- Meerjungfrauen 1900
- Tannhäuser and Venus in the Venusberg, scene from Richard Wagner’s opera
- The Rhinemaidens 1913
- Zwergenkönig Laurin Am Hof Des Dietrich Von Bern
- Wood nymph and shepherd 1905
- A Game of Dice 1919
- Mädchen in Erwartung ihres Liebhabers 1911
- Bacchantin
- Wotan’s Farewell To Brunhilde
- Fliehende Nymphen