Walter Leistikow was a German

Germany

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 artist from Bromberg (Bydgoszcz).
After having been dismissed by the Academy in Berlin

Berlin

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 for lack of talent, he studied with Hermann Eschke and the Norwegian painter Hans Fredrik Gude

Hans Gude

Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters...

.

In 1898, he became one of the founders of the Berlin Secession

Berlin Secession

The Berlin Secession was an art association founded by Berlin artists in 1898 as an alternative to the conservative state-run Association of Berlin Artists. That year the official salon jury rejected a landscape by Walter Leistikow, who was a key figure amongst a group of young artists interested...

 Movement. He died in Berlin.

Leistikowstrasse, a street in the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, named after Queen consort Sophia Charlotte...

, is named after him.

Resources

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