Eduard Schleich the younger

Born. 15.02.1853 in München
Died. 28.10.1893 in München

German Landscape artist

About the artist

Eduard Schleich, (the younger), was born on 15 February 1853 in Munich the son of the painter Eduard Schleich the Elder. He attended elementary and Latin schools and graduated in 1872.

After graduating from high school, he attended  the Munich Polytechnic, to train as an architect. While Schleich excelled in the artistic subjects, he found the technical subjects extremely difficult, so his father first taught his son the basics of art himself and then sent him to Joseph Wenglein for further training.

Unlike his father, Schleich worked as a landscape painter., the staffage figures, (the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape, that are not the primary subject matter of the work), played an important role in his work. Stylistically he belongs to the late representatives of open-air painting, turning to Impressionism from the 1890s onwards.

In the autumn of 1891, Schleich fell mentally ill and died on 28 October 1893 in a Munich psychiatric clinic.