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Kalckreuth, Leopold (Karl Walter), Graf von
(b Düsseldorf, 15 May 1855; d Eddelsen, nr Hannover, 1 Dec 1928). German painter and etcher. The son of the late Romantic landscape painter Eduard Stanislaus, Graf von Kalckreuth (1820–94), he studied from 1875 to 1878 under Ferdinand Schauss (1832–1916), Willem Linnig (1819–85) and Alexander Struys (1852–1941) at the Kunstschule in Weimar founded by his father. In 1879, after military service, he enrolled at the Akademie in Munich, where he attended Gyula Benczúr’s drawing classes and continued his study of painting under Karl Theodor von Piloty and Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907). In 1883 he travelled to the Netherlands and then to Italy and France. In 1885 he accepted a teaching appointment at the Kunstschule in Weimar, but in 1890 he resigned and returned to Munich. During the next five years he worked at Höckricht in Silesia (now Jedrzychowice, Poland), perfecting his oil technique. In 1892 he was a founder-member of the Munich Secession. Kalckreuth’s work from this period reflects the influence of several contemporaries; the portrait of the Artist’s Wife of 1888 (Leipzig, Mus. Gesch.) recalls the portraits of Franz von Lenbach and Max Liebermann, while the visionary element brought to the genre scene Rainbow (1894–6; Munich, Neue Pin.) is close to the work of Fritz von Uhde.
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