Reinhold Lepsius

Louis Richard Reinhold Lepsius ( born June 14, 1857 in Berlin, † March 16, 1922 ) was a well-known before the First World War portrait painter of the Berlin Secession, he is regarded as representative of German Impressionism.

Life

Reinhold Lepsius was the son of the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, a professor at the University of Berlin and director of the substantiated by the Egyptian Museum in Berlin was.

Many of his works have - by the Second World War - presumed lost. Are still known for his portraits of the archaeologist Ernst Curtius and the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey. Lepsius painted open one of the first after photographs. His acquaintance and admiration of the poet Stefan George, the readings held in the salon of Lepsius, is more alive today remembered as his pictures.