Leopold Löffler

Leopold Löffler
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(1827–1898) Polish painter (c.1830-1898)

Leopold Löffler (1827–1898) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Leopold Löffler belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Leopold Löffler was born in Rzeszów and died in Kraków. Leopold Löffler trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Leopold Löffler studied under Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. The students included Wojciech Weiss, Stanisław Jarocki, and Marian Wawrzeniecki.

The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 14 works by Leopold Löffler with free images. The dated works span the years 1847–1880. Works by Leopold Löffler are held by several collections, among them National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Kraków, Silesian Museum in Katowice, and Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Helena Skirmunt, Léon Belly, Ludwig Angerer, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, and Maksymilian Fajans.