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Walter Leistikow (Bdgoszcz 1865 - 1908 Berlin) The house, 1899 etching/paper 16 x 22,4 cm Inscribed by someone else's hand Walter Leistikow SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 300 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 200 Walter Leistikow (Bromberg 1865 - 1908 Berlin) was a German painter and graphic artist of Impressionism and the Berlin Secession. Born on October 25, 1865, in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland) as the son of a judge, he studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin under Eugen Bracht from 1883 to 1889, undertook a trip to Scandinavia in 1890/91, was a co-founder of the Berlin Secession in 1898 (chairman from 1902 to 1908), received the Small Gold Medal at the Berlin Academy Exhibition in 1891 and the Grand State Prize in 1905; suffered from increasing mental illness and died by suicide on July 18, 1908. Leistikow created striking landscapes ("Van Friede on the Havel," "Brandenburg Landscape," 1890), impressionistic plein air studies, and etchings with vibrant light, impasto, and planar composition, influenced by Liebermann and the French Impressionists; portraits and interiors imbued with North German melancholy and a monumental effect. Related artists and terms: Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Lesser Ury, Berlin Secession, Impressionism, Brandenburg Impressionists, Berlin Academy, Havel landscapes, etchings, Secession PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.