Walter Firle (1859 - 1929)

Walter Firle

Walter Firle was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a portrait and genre painter.

Firle was the author of a number of genre paintings and paintings on religious themes. Among his famous portraits are depictions of royalty, nobility, and famous personalities, including Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, Ludwig III (King of Bavaria), and German Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. Several of his works were acquired by the National Gallery of Berlin. A portrait of Ludwig III was featured on a series of Bavarian stamps.

Firle was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and a member of the Munich Artists' Association.