COUNT VON

See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

LEOPOLD

See also:

• KALCKREUTH (or KALKREUTH), FRIEDRICH ADOLF, COUNT VON (1737—1818)
• COUNT VON LEOPOLD KALCKREUTH (1855— )

KALCKREUTH (1855— )  , German painter, a direct descendant of the famous field-marshal (see above), was born at Dusseldorf, received his first training at Weimar from his father, the landscape painter Count Stanislaus von Kalckreuth (1820-1894), and subsequently studied at the 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 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 movement . From 1885 to 1890 Count von Kalckreuth was professor at the Weimar art school . In 1890 he resigned his professorship and retired to his estate of Hockricht in Silesia, where he occupied himself in painting subjects 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 Dresden Gallery his " Old Age." Among his chief works are the Funeral at Dachau," " Homewards," " Wedding Procession in the Carpathian Mountains," " The Gleaners," " Old Age " " Before the Fish Auction," " Summer," and " Going to School." See A . Ph . W. v . Kalckreuth, Gesch. der Herren, Freiherren and Grafen von Kalckreuth (Potsdam, 1904) .