Ferdinand Leeke

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Ferdinand Leeke (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.Horizon, vol 23, p242 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.{{cite web|title=19th Century Paintings - Ferdinand Leeke - Dorotheum|url=https://www.dorotheum.com/en/auctions/current-auctions/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/8205-19th-century-paintings/lotID/109/lot/900096-ferdinand-leeke.html|website=www.dorotheum.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-26|archive-date=2018-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703163546/https://www.dorotheum.com/en/auctions/current-auctions/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/8205-19th-century-paintings/lotID/109/lot/900096-ferdinand-leeke.html|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|title=Ferdinand Leeke|url=https://wagnersring.net/ferdinand-leeke/|website=Wagner's Ring|date=4 June 2016}}