Ferdinand Leeke


Ferdinand Leeke 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 and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner, 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.

Wagner Pictures

  • Rienzi: Act IV, Scene II
  • The Flying Dutchman: Act III, Finale
  • Tannhauser: Act III, Scene I.
  • Lohengrin: Act III, Finale
  • The Rheingold: Scene II
  • The Valkyrie: Act I.
  • Siegfried: Act II
  • Götterdämmerung: Act III
  • Tristan and Isolde: Act II
  • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Act III