Emanuel Leutze

(1816–1868) American artist (1816-1868)

Emanuel Leutze (USA, 1816–1868) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Emanuel Leutze belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Emanuel Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd and died in Washington, D.C.. Emanuel Leutze trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Emanuel Leutze worked in Munich and Philadelphia. Wikidata associates Emanuel Leutze with Romanticism. The students included Moritz von Beckerath.

The best-known works include ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’, ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way’, ‘Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields on the Approach of the British’, and ‘Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 51 works by Emanuel Leutze with free images. The dated works span the years 1837–1867. Works by Emanuel Leutze are held by several collections, among them drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New York Historical.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Emma Stebbins, Augustus Egg, John Frederick Kensett, Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, and Philippe Rousseau.

• Realism
• Washington Crossing the Delaware
• Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
• Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca