Walter Leistikow

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Walter Leistikow (25 October 1865 - 24 July 1908) was a German artist from Bromberg (Bydgoszcz).

Märkischer See bei Sonnenuntergang, painting by Walter Leistikow (1895)
Märkischer See bei Sonnenuntergang, painting by Walter Leistikow (1895)

After having been dismissed by the Academy in Berlin for lack of talent, he studied with Hermann Eschke and the Norwegian painter Hans Fredrik Gude.

In 1898, he became one of the founders of the Berlin Secession Movement. He died in Berlin.

Leistikowstrasse, a street in the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg, is named after him.

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  • Paret, Peter: The Berlin Secession. Modernism and its enemies in Imperial Germany, Harvard University Press 1980
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