581 - Leistikow, Walter (Bromberg 1865 - 1908 Berlin). Breege (on Rügen). Oil on canvas, circa 1890. Signed lower right, inscribed 'Breege' lower left. 15 x 24 cm. Framed (frame size 28 x 37 cm).

Leistikow, Walter (Bromberg 1865 - 1908 Berlin). Breege (on Rügen). Oil on canvas, circa 1890. Signed lower right, inscribed 'Breege' lower left. 15 x 24 cm. Framed (frame size 28 x 37 cm). Leistikow was dismissed from the 'Academic College of Fine Arts' in Berlin at a young age due to a lack of talent. 'His belief in himself was stronger than his belief in the infallibility of the academic professors' (Lovis Corinth in the monograph on his early-deceased friend). Leistikow then studied under the landscape painters Hermann Eschke and Hans Gude and was one of the founding members of the opposition artists' group 'Die XI'. He was friends with Gerhart Hauptmann, Max Liebermann, Harry Graf Kessler, and others. Summer lake landscape with a partly cloudy sky.]