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COUNT VON LEOPOLD KALCKREUTH (1855— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT VON LEOPOLD KALCKREUTH (1855— )  , German painter, a
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direct descendant of the famous field-marshal (see above), was born at
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Dusseldorf, received his first training at
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Weimar from his
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father, the landscape painter Count
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Stanislaus von Kalckreuth (1820-1894), and subsequently studied at the
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academies of Weimar and Munich . Although he painted some portraits remarkable for their power of expression, he devoted himself principally to depicting with relentless realism the monotonous
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life of the fishing folk on the sea-coast, and of the peasants in the fields . His palette is joyless, and almost melancholy, and in his technique he is strongly influenced by the impressionists . He was one of the founders of the secessionist
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movement . From 1885 to 1890 Count von Kalckreuth was professor at the Weimar
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art school . In 1890 he resigned his professorship and retired to his estate of Hockricht in
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Silesia, where he occupied himself in
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painting subjects
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drawn'from the life of the country-folk . In 1895 he became a professor at the art school at Karlsruhe . The Munich Pinakothek has his "Rain-bow " and the
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Dresden Gallery his " Old Age." Among his chief
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works are the Funeral at Dachau," " Homewards," "
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Wedding Procession in the Carpathian Mountains," " The Gleaners," " Old Age " " Before the Fish
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Auction," " Summer," and " Going to School." See A . Ph . W. v . Kalckreuth, Gesch. der Herren, Freiherren and Grafen von Kalckreuth (
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Potsdam, 1904) .

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