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Walter Rudolf Leistikow (1865–1908) was a German landscape painter, graphic artist, designer and art critic.
Leistikow's first exhibition was at the Berliner Salon in 1886 and, in 1892 he became a member of an artists' association known as Die-XI (), which was opposed to the teaching methods at the Academy. From 1892 to 1895, he taught at the private academy, Akademie Fehr, run by artist Conrad Fehr and located on Lützowstrasse 82 in Berlin. He also designed furniture, carpets and wallpapers. In 1902, he was chosen to create for the Stollwerck chocolate company of Cologne and produced a series of German landscapes.Detlef Lorenz: Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder. Reimer, Berlin 2000, .
For a time, Leistikow tried to become a writer, publishing a novella called Seine Cousine (1893) in the Neue Rundschau and a novel, Auf der Schwelle (1896), but they received little attention.Walter Leistikow: Auf der Schwelle. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1896. / als Reprint: Arzneimittel-Verlag, Berlin 2008, . To make matters worse, Kaiser Wilhelm II despised his pictures and was quoted as saying "er hat mir den ganzen Grunewald versaut" (he has ruined the entire Grunewald for me). (2007). 9780141904023, Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141904023
In 1894, he married Anna Mohr (1863–1950), a merchant's daughter from Copenhagen. In 1903, he was one of the co-founders of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. kuenstlerbund.de: Ordentliche Mitglieder des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit der Gründung 1903 / Leistikow, Walter (Vorstandsmitglied)
By 1908, Leistikow was dying from the agonizing effects of advanced-stage syphilis. He committed suicide by shooting himself while staying at the Sanatorium Hubertus on the Schlachtensee. Shortly after, a street in Berlin's Westend district was named after him. Leistikowstrasse in Kauperts Straßenführer durch Berlin In 1920, a street in the Mahlsdorf district was named after him as well. He was later given an ehrengrab at the cemetery in Steglitz. A commemorative stamp was issued in 1972, with one of his paintings of the Schlachtensee.
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