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Martin B Leisser

Martin B. Leisser (1846 - 1940) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California.  Martin Leisser is known for Landscape, portrait, figure and still life painting.

Born on July 29, 1845 to German immigrants Balthazar and Johanna Leisser, Martin Leisser was raised on Pittsburgh's South Side where his father worked as a packer in a glass factory. The budding artist's first job was painting decorative flowers on safes and scales, but, encouraged by his mother, Leisser saved up his money and left for Europe in 1868, studying first at the Academie Julian in Paris and then at the Royal Academy in Munich.

After several years abroad, Leisser returned to his hometown and taught at the Pittsburgh School of Design for Women. It is here where his association with the Scalp Level School painters began, as its leader George Hetzel was also in residence there. Leisser later became headmaster of the Pittsburgh Art School, and also founded the Pittsburgh Art Society*, an organization that sponsored art exhibitions. He was friends with astronomer John Brashear, as well as steel baron Andrew Carnegie, and along with a friend was instrumental in convincing Ca   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1896 characters.]  Artist bio

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