Leopold Bode
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Leopold Bode | |
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| Born | 11 March 1831 Offenbach am Main |
| Died | 26 July 1906 (aged 75) Frankfurt am Main |
| Education | The Städel |
| Movement | Nazarene, Romanticism |
Christian Leopold Bode (born 11 March 1831 in Offenbach am Main, died 26 July 1906 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German historical painter and graphic artist.
Bode was the eldest of the landscape painter Georg Wilhelm Bode (1801–1881) and his wife Anna Maria's three sons. From 1848 he studied at the Städel in Frankfurt under Professors Jakob Becker and Johann David Passavant. In 1851 he placed himself under the tutelage of Eduard von Steinle and married Catharina Elisabeth Geiger (1826–1856). After graduating in 1859, he married Catharina's sister Mary Margaret, with whom he had three children. For many years he had a studio at the Städel and in Isenburg Castle in Offenbach, the latter of which inspired numerous exterior and interior views in his paintings.
In 1901 on the day of Bode's seventieth birthday, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse bestowed upon him the title of Professor.
Bode died 26 July 1906, and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Offenbach. In 2011 Bode's diary, which had been lost during World War II, was found and donated to the Offenbach city archive, which also acquired a bundle with 45 of Bode's graphic depictions of landscapes and historical motifs.
