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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Leo Herrmann
- Leo Herrmann (2 July 1853 – 1927) was a French anti-clerical painter. Herrmann was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, and learned under the tutelage Ernest Meissonier.
- He entered the Parisian art scene in 1875 at the Paris Salon.
- Herrmann occasionally painted dandies or soldiers, but became a successful artist by creating works that depict cardinals wearing red cassocks in comical scenarios.Some of his paintings have clerics feeding swans; others have cardinals themselves painting.
- Another has a cardinal drinking wine through a long straw.
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