Background
Seyffert, Leopold was born on January 6, 1887 in at California, Missouri, United States. Son of Herman and Emma (Twiebaus) Seyffert.
Seyffert, Leopold was born on January 6, 1887 in at California, Missouri, United States. Son of Herman and Emma (Twiebaus) Seyffert.
Studied art Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, and in Paris and Spain.
Awarded fellowship prize, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1912. Honorable mention Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1913. Gold medal Art Club, Philadelphia, 1913.
Silver medal San Francisco Exposition, 1915.
Altman prize National Academy of Design, 1917, Hallgarten prize, 1916, Proctor prize, 1921, Isidor medal. Beck gold medal, 1918, and Temple gold medal Pennsylvania Academy, 1921.
Potter Palmer gold medal, Chicago, 1923. F. G. Logan prize, Chicago, 1923.
West. R. Hearst prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1924.
Silver medal, Municipal Art League, Chicago. Gold medal, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926. Stotesbury and Lippincott prizes, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts.
Medal of honor Allied Arts of America, 1946.
Former instructor The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Represented permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Detroit The Art Institute of Chicago, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Corcoran Gallery, Washington Art Museum, Los Angeles Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Brooklyn Museum, and in many private collections. National Academician, 1919.
Club: Dutch Treat (New York City). Studio: 1 West. 67th Saint, New York City.
Married Helen Fleck, June 5, 1911. Married second, Grace J. Vernon, January 4, 1930. Children: Mary Louise (deceased), Leopold, Peter.