Leonhard Sandrock
ARTISTLeonhard Sandrock was born in 1867 in Silesia, the father of the same name is a pastor, the mother Luise comes from a family of officers. After the death of the mother, Leonhard and his brother come to foster parents. Already as a child he showed his talent for painting and drawing, especially he liked ships and sea motives. His first surviving painting is a locomotive painted with watercolours, which he made when he was five years old. Nevertheless he had to aspire to a military career and ended up in the infantry unit of the Prussian Army. He had to leave this because of an injury, he fell from his horse and from now on he had a walking disability.
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