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Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth (15 May 1855 – 1 December 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes.
File:Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth - Portrait of Maria Countess of Kalckreuth.jpg, Portrait of Maria (1888), Leopold's sister
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalckreuth, Leopold Von 1855 births 1928 deaths Counts of Germany Leopold Artists from Düsseldorf People from the Rhine Province 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth (15 May 1855 – 1 December 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes.
Biography
A direct descendant of field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born atDüsseldorf
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, received his first training at Weimar
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from his father, the landscape painter Count Stanislaus von Kalckreuth
Count Stanislaus Friedrich Ludwig von Kalckreuth (25 December 1820, Kozmin - 25 November 1894, Munich) was a German painter who specialized in mountain landscapes.
Biography
He was born into the Kalckreuth family of the Prussian nobility wi ...
(1820–1894), and subsequently studied at the academies of Weimar and Munich
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.
Although he painted some portraits remarkable for their power of expression, he devoted himself principally to depicting with relentless realism the monotonous life of the fishing folk on the sea-coast, and of the peasants in the fields. His palette is joyless, and almost melancholy, and in his technique he is strongly influenced by the impressionists
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. He was one of the founders of the secessionist movement
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. One of his students was Hellmut Eichrodt.
From 1885 to 1890, Count von Kalckreuth was professor at the Weimar art school. In 1890, he resigned his professorship and retired to his estate of Hockricht in Silesia
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, where he occupied himself in painting subjects drawn from the life of the country-folk. In 1895, he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
The Munich Pinakothek
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has his ''Rainbow'' and the Dresden Gallery
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his ''Old Age''. Among his chief works are the ''Funeral at Dachau'', ''Homewards'', ''Wedding Procession in the Carpathian Mountains'', ''The Gleaners'', ''Before the Fish Auction'', ''Summer'', and ''Going to School''.
Leopold's sister Maria
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was also a painter. Leopold's sister Clara was a pianist who studied with Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
and with Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
. A love of art and music was passed through this family to Leopold’s great-nephew, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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(1906–1945), the German theologian and martyr who gave his life in opposing Adolf Hitler
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.''Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography'', Eberhard Bethge, Fortress Press, 2000, p. 3.
Selected paintings
Alfred Beit
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Leopold von Kalckreuth - Feierabend der Hafenarbeiter (1894).jpg, Longshoremen
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Quitting Work
File:Leopold von Kalckreuth - Wolf, der Sohn des Künstlers (1900).jpg, The Artist's Son, Wolf
File:Leopold von Kalckreuth - Erntezeit (1900).jpg, Harvest Time
File:Franz Koenigs.jpg, Franz Koenigs
Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (3 September 1881 – 6 May 1941) was an international banker and art collector.
Biography
Koenigs was born a German citizen, his father was a German Banker; his mother Johanna Bunge was of Dutch descent.
Franz Koenigs t ...
Further reading
*Albert Philipp Wilhelm von Kalckreuth, ''Historisch-Genealogische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Herren, Freiherren und Grafen von Kalckreuth'', Stein, 1904.References
*External links
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalckreuth, Leopold Von 1855 births 1928 deaths Counts of Germany Leopold Artists from Düsseldorf People from the Rhine Province 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)