Walter Leistikow

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Last photograph taken by Walter Leistikow
Portrait of Leistikow by Lovis Corinth (1893)
Forest lake in winter (1892)
Märkischer See at sunset (1895)
Evening mood at the Schlachtensee (1895)
House in Denmark (1898)
Walter Leistikow grave, Bergstrasse cemetery, Berlin-Steglitz

Walter Rudolf Leistikow (born October 25, 1865 in Bromberg ; † July 24, 1908 in Zehlendorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist of German impressionism .

Life

Leistikow was born in Bromberg (today's Bydgoszcz in Poland ), the second of nine children of the pharmacist Karl Leistikow (1820-1893) and his wife Bertha Cäcilie Leistikow, born. Hoyer (1837–1912) born. The house where he was born was in the lively Danziger Strasse (now defunct), on the corner with Elisabethstrasse, on the edge of the city center. This is where the parents' bittersweet factory Kujawiak was located, which provided the family with a substantial additional income for decades.

At the age of 17 he moved to Berlin in March 1883 to become an artist. But after only six months he was dismissed from the Royal Academy of Arts under Anton von Werner for lack of talent. He then took private lessons with the landscape painters Hermann Eschke (until 1885) and Hans Gude (until 1887). From 1890 to 1897 he lived and worked in the Atelierhaus Lützowstraße 82

Leistikow first took part in the Berlin Salon in 1886 and was one of the founding members of the opposition artist group Die XI in 1892 . Around 1893 he was at times close to symbolism , the color scheme and lines of which remained authoritative for him. The alleged rejection of the Grunewaldsee painting by the jury of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition as the foundation of the Berlin Secession is a legend.

Sunset on the Coast (1906)

Leistikow also worked as an artisan and designed furniture, fabrics, carpets and wallpaper, in line with the conception of art of his time. Around 1902 he worked for the Cologne chocolate factory Gebr. Stollwerck with designs for Stollwerck collector's pictures and designed a. a. the series "German Landscapes" for the scrapbook no. 5. He also tried his hand at writing. In 1893 he published the novella His Cousine in the Freie Bühne , and in 1896 his novel Auf der Schwelle appeared , but it was unsuccessful. In addition to Eugen Bracht , he is one of those painters who dealt intensively with open-air painting .

Leistikow was one of the members of the Friedrichshagener Kreis and spent numerous summers there at the gates of Berlin. Leistikow was friends and a. with Gerhart Hauptmann , Lovis Corinth , Max Liebermann and Theodor Wolff .

Leistikow's achievements in art policy include the establishment of the German Association of Artists together with Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar in 1903.

Leistikow had been married to the Copenhagen merchant's daughter Anna Catharina Mohr (1863–1950) since December 1894 and had two children, Gerda (* 1896) and Gunnar (* 1903). His nephew Hans Leistikow (1892–1962) also became known as a designer and graphic artist.

Walter Leistikow shot himself on July 24, 1908 during a stay in the Hubertus sanatorium in Berlin-Schlachtensee in the final stages of his long-standing syphilis . After a great and honorable funeral service in the Berlin Secession building, he was buried on July 29, 1908 in the Steglitz cemetery. His grave is an honorary grave of the State of Berlin . The tombstone - a work by Franz Seeck from 1909 - was renewed on the 100th anniversary of his death. The grave is located in Dept. Ih - Hereditary Burial 251.

Honors

German postage stamp from 1972 with motif Am Schlachtensee
  • From 1954 until it was closed in 2008, the Leistikow Oberschule, the only secondary school in Berlin-Zehlendorf , was named after him.

Works

  • Dune landscape on Rügen , 1886
  • Washerwomen on the lakeside , 1886
  • Märkische landscape with water , 1886
  • Brickworks in Eckernförde , 1887
  • Pommerscher Strandsee , 1887
  • Beach village in Pomerania with setting sun , 1888
  • Breege on Rügen , 1888
  • At the Jasmunder Bodden on Rügen , 1888
  • Heligoland , 1889
  • Brickworks by the Water , 1889
  • Twilight in East Friesland (North Friesland, Pellworm) , 1890
  • In front of the village cemetery , 1890
  • House behind trees in the garden , around 1885/90
  • Lovis Corinth , 1893
  • Birch trees in the forest , 1894
  • Lonely forest pond , around 1894
  • Gutshof and Gutstor in Kleinmachnow , 1894
  • Branch canal with boats , 1895
  • The old pilot boats , 1895
  • Evening mood at the Schlachtensee , around 1895
  • The Grunewaldsee in the morning , around 1895
  • Grunewaldsee , 1895
  • Märkische Seenlandschaft , around 1896
  • Norwegian high mountains , 1897
  • Märkische Abendlandschaft , 1897
  • Trees , around 1897
  • Lofoten landscape , 1897/98
  • House in Denmark , 1898
  • The blue bridge on Lake Diana , 1898
  • From the Mark , 1898
  • Forest , 1898
  • Cranes on a Coastal Landscape , 1898
  • Villa in Grunewald , 1899
  • Wisby , 1899
  • Harbor , 1900
  • Evening light , around 1900
  • View of the Havel , around 1900
  • At the Grunewaldsee , around 1900
  • Visby ruins , around 1900
  • Dunes on Juist , 1900
  • Tall pines on the Grunewaldsee , 1901
  • Moonlit night on the North Sea , 1901
  • Norwegian Mountains , 1902
  • Thuringia , around 1902
  • Fisherman's hut in the dunes , 1902
  • Grunewaldsee , 1902
  • Cloud Shadow , 190
  • Cornfields , around 1903
  • Havel barges in moonlight , 1903
  • Love island in Grunewald , around 190
  • Villa on Lake Märkisches See , 1906
  • Love island - Lindwerder, view of the banks of the Havel , 1906
  • Sunset on the Coast , 1906
  • Berlin lake landscape , undated
  • Märkischer See in the evening light , undated
  • Evening Havel landscape with a rising full moon , undated
  • River landscape , undated
  • Märkischer See , no year.
  • Migrating swans as the sun sets , undated
  • Fishing boats in the harbor , undated
  • Grunewaldsee with bay , no year
  • House behind chestnut trees in bloom , undated
  • Sailboats , undated
  • Dunes on the Baltic Sea , n.d.
  • Forest (forest thicket) , n.d.

Fonts

  • Walter Selber (pseudonym): The Munch Affair . In: Freie Bühne , 3rd year, 1892, pp. 1296–1300
  • Modern art in Paris . In: Freie Bühne , 4 vol., 1893, pp. 800–804
  • His cousin (novella). In: Freie Bühne , 4th year, 1893
  • On the threshold , Roman, Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1896; Reprint AVI Arzneimittel Verlags-GmbH, Berlin 2008
  • Modern wallpaper . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt , NF, 13th year, issue 5, 1902, pp. 85–92
  • Otto Eckmann . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt , NF, 13th year, issue 10, 1902, pp. 194–197
  • About the German Artists Association and the days in Weimar . In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , 19th year, 1903/04, issue 9, pp. 201–205
  • About learning to paint . In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , 23rd year, issue 15, 1908, pp. 351–354

literature

  • Wilhelm Fabian: To the estimation of Walter Leistikow . In: Deutsche Kunst , 2, 1897/98, pp. 381–383
  • Max Osborn: Walter Leistikow . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 5, Issue 3, 1899, pp. 113–136
  • Peter Behrens : Walter Leistikow . In: Decorative Art , 2, 1899, p. 233 f.
  • Friedrich Fuchs: Walter Leistikow. In: Berliner Leben , Issue 10, 1901, pp. 188–189.
  • Werner Weisbach: Walter Leistikow . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , NF 13, 1902, pp. 281–294
  • Oscar Bie: Walter Leistikow . In: Art and Artists. Illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts , vol. 2, 1904, pp. 260–268
  • Julius Elias: Walter Leistikow . In: Art for everyone. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , 18th year, 1902/03, issue 14, pp. 345–351
  • Hans Rosenhagen: Walter Leistikow . In: German Art and Decoration , Volume 16, 1905, pp. 499–509
  • Max Liebermann : Nekrolog on Walter Leistikow . In: Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts , NF XIX, No. 30, August 14, 1908, Col. 529 ff.
  • Ernst Schur : Walter Leistikow . In: Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 11, No. 6 (September 1908), pp. 213–215 (PDF)
  • Emil Heilbut : Leistikow . In: Die Neue Rundschau , 20, 1909, pp. 149–151
  • Lovis Corinth : The Life of Walter Leistikows. A piece of Berlin's cultural history . Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1910
  • Klaus Merx:  Leistikow, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 163 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Margrit Bröhan: Walter Leistikow. Painter of the Berlin landscape . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988
  • Arthur Brande: Walter Leistikow and the Grunewald . In: Zehlendorfer Heimatbrief , 32nd vol., 3, 1989, pp. 24-28
  • Margrit Bröhan: Walter Leistikow - landscape pictures . Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1994
  • Markus Nass: Walter Leistikow. The graphic work . Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-00-004140-0 (catalog raisonné of all prints and print conditions).
  • Ingeborg Becker (Ed.): Mood landscapes. Painting by Walter Leistikow . Exhibition catalog, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06829-2

Web links

Commons : Walter Leistikow  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berlin address book 1890–1897
  2. ^ Klaus Merx:  Leistikow, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 163 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-496-01220-7 .
  4. ^ Walter Leistikow: On the threshold. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1896. / as reprint : Arzneimittel-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-921687-32-1 .
  5. ^ Anton Springer: From 1800 to the present . P. 327, 1921
  6. ^ Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Leistikow, Walter (board member) . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kuenstlerbund.de; accessed on October 17, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ^ Walter-Leistikow-Weg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  8. ↑ Leistikowstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  9. ↑ Leistikowstraße on potsdam-chronik.de; accessed on March 22, 2014
  10. ↑ Article. In: morgenpost.de. Retrieved January 12, 2012 .
  11. ^ Symbolism show in Bielefeld 2013 ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Leistikow, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leistikow, Walter Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1908
Place of death Berlin