In the history of art, Walter Leistikow is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Walter Leistikow as German artist (1865-1908).
Walter Leistikow was born at Bydgoszcz in 1865. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Academy of Arts, Berlin.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, writer and graphic artist.
His recorded movement is expressionism.
His best-known work is Lake Grunewald. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Walter Leistikow died in 1908, aged 43. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lake Grunewald
- Movement: Expressionism
