Anton Robert Leinweber
Anton Robert Leinweber (7 February 1845, Böhmisch Leipa – 21 December 1921, Munich) was a Bohemian German painter and illustrator; known for his Orientalist and Biblical scenes. Biography His father was a secondary-school teacher. After completing his local education, he went to Prague and Vienna to study engineering, but never completed his courses. While in Vienna, he became a member of the , but was expelled for unknown reasons in 1864. After this period, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, to study painting; followed by studies in Prague and at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his principal instructor was Julius Hübner. He spent many years in North Africa; primarily Tunisia. Together with Philipp Grot Johann and Hermann Vogel, he created illustrations for Grimm's Fairy Tales. He also produced illustrations for a deluxe edition of the Bible. Sources Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Vol. II: Künstler. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, , pgs.446–447 Biographical data @ AbART External links More works by Leinweber @ Meisterdrucke 1845 births 1921 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German illustrators German orientalists German Bohemian people People from Česká Lípa 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists