unknow artist  Related Paintings of Anonymous :. | charles ix, king of sweden | Portrait of Duke Francis I of Pomerania on catafalque | Cena religiosa | Portrait of Grigory Petrovich Chernyshev | Lubomirska as Minerva |
Related Artists:
Franz Schreyer
painted View of Capri in 1858-1936
Guglielmo Ciardi
Italian, 1842-1917
Walter Leistikow
1865-1908,German painter, decorative artist, etcher, exhibition organizer and writer. He studied painting briefly in 1883, at the Akademie in Berlin, but he was dismissed after six months as 'untalented'. From 1883 to 1885 he trained with the painter Hermann Eschke (1823-1900) and from 1885 to 1887 with the Norwegian painter Hans Fredrik Gude. Gude had a decisive influence on the style of Leistikow's early works, as is especially clear in Leistikow's light coastal landscapes with figures. His most significant work from this period, however, is Brickworks near Eckernferde (1887; ex-Gem?ldegal. Neue Meister, Dresden). Leistikow's dismissal from the Akademie concentrated his attention on issues of artistic policy. When the German government decided not to send works for exhibition in the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, Leistikow himself organized the dispatch of works to Paris. In 1892,