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Leo Lesser Ury (November 7, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was a German impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Impressionist painter and printmaker Lesser Ury (né Leo Lesser Ury) was born into a Jewish family in Birnbaum, then in the Prussian province of Posen (now.

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Lesser URY

Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931

Biography

The son of a baker, Leo Lesser Ury was born in 1861 into a German Jewish family in Prussia, and on his father’s death in 1872 moved with his family to Berlin. In 1879 he enrolled at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He spent some time in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and Stuttgart before returning to Berlin in 1887. Two years later he had his first one-man exhibition, which saw his work meet with critical disapproval but gain the support of Adolph von Menzel and earn the artist a prize from the Kunstakademie. In 1893 Ury joined the Munich Secession, returning in 1901 to Berlin, where he was to become arguably the finest painter of the city’s streets around the turn of the century. As one scholar has written of the artist, ‘He painted Berlin as no other painter did at a time when the small Prussian royal seat was rapidly developing into the capital of the German Reich.’

Lesser Ury’s paintings and pastels of landscapes, urban views, nocturnal street scenes and interiors, painted in a free and Impressionistic manner, proved very po

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Ury, Leo Lesser

(Leo) Lesser Ury was a German impressionist painter who followed his own style and is perhaps most well known for his skills with pastels – some consider Ury one of the most important pastellists of the 19th Century.

Born in 1861 in Birnbaum, Poznan (Prussia), Ury was the third son in a struggling merchant family. His father, a baker, died in 1872. The family moved to Berlin , their financial situation turned desperate and Ury ran away from home. He became an apprentice to a clothing merchant but only remained there long enough to save the money to study art. (Historical accounts disagree as to whether Ury was only 12 or 17 years old when he accepted the apprenticeship.)

Ury traveled throughout Europe for a number of years perfecting his skills as an artist. He was in Brussels and Antwerp in 1880. He spent time in Paris painting floral still lifes, city scenes and interiors during 1881. The Academie Royal des Baues-Artes in Brussels was where he stopped in 1882 and in 1883 he was in Paris. Stops in Berlin, Stuttgard and Karlsruhe followed in 1885.

Ury returne

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Biography

German painter. He was highly regarded at the time of his death, but is now largely forgotten except for his impressionistic scenes of Berlin life.

Born in Birnbaum, Poznan (then part of Prussia), he moved after the death of his father and during his teens to Berlin. In 1878 he began his art studies in Dusseldorf, spent time in Paris and Brussels, moved around the German cities of Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, before finally returning to Berlin in 1887.

As a mature painter he introduced Impressionism into the Berlin art scene, but not to popular acclaim. As a Jew, he was subject to the rampant anti-semitism of the newly established German Reich and as an importer of a foreign French art movement, he was subject to a strong nationalist condemnation engendered by the recent Franco-Prussian War. He remained an outsider in the Berlin art scene for most of his life but finally did achieve recognition in the years immediately prior to his death in 1931 - with a number of prominent exhibits and acceptance into the Berlin Secession.

Ury travelled to London, Paris and