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1828 Freiberg, Germany - 1905 Dresden, Germany. Known for: Landscape painting with forests, figures and mountains, lithography.
The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his... Read full biography
The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his professors. Over the course of his career, he travelled to the Harz Mountains, Northern Bohemia,... Read full biography
The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his professors. Over the course of his career, he travelled to the Harz Mountains, Northern Bohemia, Munich, Salzburg and Upper Bavaria and continued his education in Düsseldorf from 1855 to 1859. In his last year in Düsseldorf, he married Apoline Schotel, the daughter of the marine painter Petrus... Read full biography
The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his professors. Over the course of his career, he travelled to the Harz Mountains, Northern Bohemia, Munich, Salzburg and Upper Bavaria and continued his education in Düsseldorf from 1855 to 1859. In his last year in Düsseldorf, he married Apoline Schotel, the daughter of the marine painter Petrus Johannes Schotel. At the age of 38, he was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts. In the following year he inherited his father’s “Chemische Fabrik”, which gave him the financial leeway to build a villa and set up a... Read full biography
The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his professors. Over the course of his career, he travelled to the Harz Mountains, Northern Bohemia, Munich, Salzburg and Upper Bavaria and continued his education in Düsseldorf from 1855 to 1859. In his last year in Düsseldorf, he married Apoline Schotel, the daughter of the marine painter Petrus Johannes Schotel. At the age of 38, he was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts. In the following year he inherited his father’s “Chemische Fabrik”, which gave him the financial leeway to build a villa and set up a foundation for a poorhouse. In 1879, the artist acquired an old mill known as the “Hentschelmühle”, which he used to build... Read full biography
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The German landscape painter and lithographer Emil August Eduard Leonhardi was born in Freiberg, Saxony, and was a student at the Dresden Academy from 1844. Adrian Ludwig Richter numbered among his professors.
Over the course of his career, he travelled to the Harz Mountains, Northern Bohemia, Munich, Salzburg and Upper Bavaria and continued his education in Düsseldorf from 1855 to 1859. In his last year in Düsseldorf, he married Apoline Schotel, the daughter of the marine painter Petrus Johannes Schotel.
At the age of 38, he was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts. In the following year he inherited his father’s “Chemische Fabrik”, which gave him the financial leeway to bui...But wait, there's more...
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