{{Short description|German painter (1859–1923)}}
'''Ferdinand Leeke''' (7 April 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas.<ref>Horizon, vol 23, p242</ref> A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich (1843–1905) and Sándor Liezen-Mayer, a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838–1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter.<ref>{{cite web|title=19th Century Paintings - Ferdinand Leeke - Dorotheum|url=https://www.dorotheum.com/en/auctions/current-auctions/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/8205-19th-century-paintings/lotID/109/lot/900096-ferdinand-leeke.html|website=www.dorotheum.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-26|archive-date=2018-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703163546/https://www.dorotheum.com/en/auctions/current-auctions/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/8205-19th-century-paintings/lotID/109/lot/900096-ferdinand-leeke.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer Richard Wagner, commissioned Leeke to paint a series of paintings showing scenes from ten operas by Wagner.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ferdinand Leeke|url=https://wagnersring.net/ferdinand-leeke/|website=Wagner's Ring|date=4 June 2016}}</ref>
== Wagner Pictures ==
* Rienzi: Act IV, Scene II * The Flying Dutchman: Act III, Finale * Tannhauser: Act III, Scene I. * Lohengrin: Act III, Finale * The Rheingold: Scene II * The Valkyrie: Act I. * Siegfried: Act II * Götterdämmerung: Act III * Tristan and Isolde: Act II * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Act III
== Gallery == <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="220"> File:The Mermaid and the Satyr.jpg|''The Mermaid and the Satyr'' (1917) File:Tristan.jpg|''Tristan und Isolde'' File:Lohengrin.gif|''Lohengrin'' File:Ferdinand Leeke - Wotan and Brünnhilde, 1930.jpg|''Wotan and Brünnhilde'' (1930) File:Ferdinand Leeke - Lohengrin 1916.jpg|''Lohengrin'' (1916) </gallery>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Ferdinand Leeke}} *[http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/LeekeArt.html Scenes from Wagnerian Operas]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leeke, Ferdinand}} Category:1859 births Category:1923 deaths Category:People from Burg bei Magdeburg Category:19th-century German painters Category:19th-century German male artists Category:German male painters Category:20th-century German painters Category:20th-century German male artists Category:Lohengrin