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.

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