Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from

Wagnerian Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most ...

Operas. A native of

Burg bei Magdeburg Burg (; also known as Burg bei Magdeburg to distinguish from other places with the same name) is a town of about 22,400 inhabitants on the Elbe–Havel Canal in northeastern Germany, northeast of Magdeburg. It is the capital of the Jerichower L ...

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, 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.

Wagner Pictures

* Rienzi: Act IV, Scene II * The Flying Dutchman: Act III, Finale * Tannhauser: Act III, Scene I. * Lohengrin: Act III, Finale * The Rheingold: Scene II * The Valkyrie: Act I. * Siegfried: Act II * Götterdämmerung: Act III * Tristan and Isolde: Act II * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Act III

Gallery

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Tristan und Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance ''Tristan and Iseult'' by Gottfried von Stras ...

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Scenes from Wagnerian Operas
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