Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855 - 1928)

Leopold von Kalckreuth

Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist of realistic direction.

Leopold von Kalckreuth was engaged in portrait, genre and landscape painting. He is considered an important representative of the pleiad of artists who determined the development of German painting in the second half of the XIX century and at the turn of the century.

Von Kalckreuth was one of the founders of the Stuttgart Artists' Association, the oldest surviving artists' association in Germany, and of the Artists' Association of Silesia in Breslau.