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Leonhard Sandrock was born in 1867 in Silesia, the father of the same name is a pastor, the mother Luise comes from a family of officers. After the death of the mother, Leonhard and his brother come to foster parents. Already as a child he showed his talent for painting and drawing, especially he liked ships and sea motives. His first surviving painting is a locomotive painted with watercolours, which he made when he was five years old. Nevertheless he had to aspire to a military career and ended up in the infantry unit of the Prussian Army. He had to leave this because of an injury, he fell from his horse and from now on he had a walking disability.
Now he can at least devote himself to his true talent, in Berlin he studies with the German painter Hermann Eschke, who himself had received lessons from marine painters. In 1898 Sandrock became a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler, the oldest artists' association in Germany. Like his teacher, he undertook numerous study trips, for example to Holland and Belgium, then settled back in Berlin. He married the Silesian Ella Schmidt and took a studio in Berlin-Friedenau. His maritime themes were to accompany him throughout his life, a passion that was strengthened by further journeys to Italy, Malta, Greece and the North and Baltic Seas. Ports and harbor cities became his main motifs, especially the port of Hamburg. He was also drawn to industrial themes, locomotives and machines. These motifs and themes were very popular before the First World War, various museums were interested in his work. His works were also printed and discussed in art magazines. Together with other artists he founded the Berliner Landschafter Club and became a member of the Freie Vereinigung der Graphiker zu Berlin. Characteristic for Sandrock are the use of strong colours and his great understanding for technique and details, as well as the combination of people and machines.
He can often show his works at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, at the International Art Exhibition in Munich, in his home town at the Lower Silesian Art Association and at numerous exhibitions on the subject of industry and shipping. Especially as a representative of the Silesian artists he was in great demand, also outside his home country - even after his death in 1945 in Berlin. At the end of the 20th century his art was rediscovered (partly also by the art dealer Eduard Sabatier, who appropriated 300 oil paintings by Sandrock), restored and shown in the Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, in the Overbeckmuseum Bremen and at an exhibition in honour of the playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. Although the artist rarely dates his paintings, they show how industry and public transport have changed over the decades. Thanks to his eye for industrial and craft details, we have a deeper understanding of the emergence of the industrialisation of transport.
Leonhard Sandrock was born in 1867 in Silesia, the father of the same name is a pastor, the mother Luise comes from a family of officers. After the death of the mother, Leonhard and his brother come to foster parents. Already as a child he showed his talent for painting and drawing, especially he liked ships and sea motives. His first surviving painting is a locomotive painted with watercolours, which he made when he was five years old. Nevertheless he had to aspire to a military career and ended up in the infantry unit of the Prussian Army. He had to leave this because of an injury, he fell from his horse and from now on he had a walking disability.
Now he can at least devote himself to his true talent, in Berlin he studies with the German painter Hermann Eschke, who himself had received lessons from marine painters. In 1898 Sandrock became a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler, the oldest artists' association in Germany. Like his teacher, he undertook numerous study trips, for example to Holland and Belgium, then settled back in Berlin. He married the Silesian Ella Schmidt and took a studio in Berlin-Friedenau. His maritime themes were to accompany him throughout his life, a passion that was strengthened by further journeys to Italy, Malta, Greece and the North and Baltic Seas. Ports and harbor cities became his main motifs, especially the port of Hamburg. He was also drawn to industrial themes, locomotives and machines. These motifs and themes were very popular before the First World War, various museums were interested in his work. His works were also printed and discussed in art magazines. Together with other artists he founded the Berliner Landschafter Club and became a member of the Freie Vereinigung der Graphiker zu Berlin. Characteristic for Sandrock are the use of strong colours and his great understanding for technique and details, as well as the combination of people and machines.
He can often show his works at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, at the International Art Exhibition in Munich, in his home town at the Lower Silesian Art Association and at numerous exhibitions on the subject of industry and shipping. Especially as a representative of the Silesian artists he was in great demand, also outside his home country - even after his death in 1945 in Berlin. At the end of the 20th century his art was rediscovered (partly also by the art dealer Eduard Sabatier, who appropriated 300 oil paintings by Sandrock), restored and shown in the Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, in the Overbeckmuseum Bremen and at an exhibition in honour of the playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. Although the artist rarely dates his paintings, they show how industry and public transport have changed over the decades. Thanks to his eye for industrial and craft details, we have a deeper understanding of the emergence of the industrialisation of transport.