Old Man with a Walking Stick
Wilhelm Leibl
1875/77
Medium
Etching on tan laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.8 × 11.9 cm (5 7/8 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 17.4 cm (9 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
153257
About the Artist
Wilhelm Leibl · 1844–1900
Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) was the foremost German Realist painter of the nineteenth century, a figure who dedicated his career to an uncompromising fidelity to observed reality at a time when idealized academic painting still dominated official taste. Born in Cologne, he studied at the Munich Academy under Karl von Piloty, but the decisive influence on his development came from his encounter with ...