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Ferdinand Leeke

Wotan's Farewell from Brünnhilde

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November 13, 02:09 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 EUR

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Ferdinand Leeke

Burg bei Magdeburg 1859 - 1937 Nuremberg

Wotan's Farewell from Brünnhilde

Oil on canvas

Signed and localized lower left Ferd. Leeke / München

125,5 x 94 cm ; 49⅜ by 37 in.

Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 March 2015, lot 62.

This painting illustrates one of the most famous scenes in Wagner’s tetralogy, Wotan’s farewell to Brunhild (Die Walküre, act III), when the god, father to the Valkyrie, kisses his daughter’s eyes before she falls into the deep slumber from which Siegfried will awaken her.

Born in Saxony and trained in Munich, Ferdinand Leeke was one of the most important Wagnerian artists of his generation. Deeply influenced by the composer, he spent most of his career illustrating his repertoire. The composer’s son, Siegfried Wagner, commissioned him to produce a series of paintings in the 1880s.

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