Ferdinand Leeke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German artist, known for depicting Wagner's plays
Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1859
Place of Birth: Burg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Date of Death: 16-Nov-1937
Profession: illustrator, painter
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Ferdinand Leeke
- Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 - 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.
- A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843-1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter.Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.
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