Moritz Ledeli
Austrian, 1856-1920
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Moritz Ledeli was an Austrian painter and lithographer of Czech descent.
Moritz Ledeli received his first painting lessons from his father, the landscape painter Joseph Ledeli. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and went on study trips to Germany, England and Holland.
As an illustrator, he worked for various magazines.
He painted portraits of celebrities, street scenes, genre pictures from Viennese folk life, hunting scenes and scenes from the life of elegant society. During the First World War, Ledeli depicted the hustle and bustle on the streets of Vienna and created battle pictures. Ledeli's works are now in state collections in Vienna, such as the Army History Museum , the Austrian Belvedere Gallery, the Albertina Graphic Collection and the Vienna Museum.