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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 ...
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Book References: 11
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Author
Color
American Art Review
Born of Fire
August 2006
The Valley of Work
Yes
American Art Review
Valley of Work: Scenes of Industry
March 1996
O'Toole, Judith Hansen
Yes
11 Book References for Martin B. Leisser
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Author
Title
Pages
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2009
Libby, Gary R.
Reflections-Paintings of Florida 1865-1965
184
Yes
2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
479
No
2005
Davenport, Ray
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2421
No
2002
Hughes, Edan Milton
Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
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1249
No
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
301
Yes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
3724
No
1992
Strazdes, Diana
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
511
Yes
1990
Gerdts, William H
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
421
Yes
1989
Chew, Paul
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters Collection Westmorland Museum of Art
138
Yes
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612
No
1973
Carnegie Institute
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
196
Yes
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