Leo Leonhard

In 1952, Leo Leonhard left the GDR and completed his schooling in West Berlin and Dortmund. After studying German language and literature in Marburg, he studied graphic design from 1961 to 1964 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Otto Coester. He worked as a freelance graphic designer and teacher, trained art educators at the Studienseminar Darmstadt, and held a professorship for drawing at FH Mainz from 1987 to 2004. Etching is the focus of his printmaking work, including prints featuring Darmstadt motifs, and works related to Georg Büchner, Beckett, and Goethe; from 1969 he was a member of the Neue Darmstädter Sezession as well as the associations XYLON and Verein für Original-Radierung München.

In the collection: "Rede des toten christus vom Weltgebäude herab, daß kein Fett sei" (Speech of the Dead Christ from the Edifice of the World, That There Be No Fat), "Mit den besten Wünschen zum Jahreswechsel 92/93" (With Best Wishes for the New Year 92/93), "Viko-Eingang" (Viko Entrance), "Zug der darmstädter hofgesellschaft" (Procession of the Darmstadt Court Society), "Proserpina".

Technique: Etching-engraving.