Leonhard Sandrock - Artist Info

About Leonhard Sandrock

  • Biography

    Leonhard Sandrock (born March 5, 1867 in Neumarkt in Silesia, † October 30, 1945 in Berlin) was a German painter and etcher. He was the son of a pastor of the same name. His first watercolor was a locomotive, which he painted at the age of five years.

    After graduating from the Schweidnitz High School in 1887, he began the officer career in the Prussian army, but had to give it up in 1894 because of a riding accident. He hen studied in Berlin in the studio of landscape and marine painter Hermann Eschke.

    Later he painted in German, Dutch and Italian port cities as well as in Belgian, Westphalian and Upper Silesian industrial districts. In 1898 he became a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler. He was regularly represented wit...

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