Background
He was born in Berlin, a son of Elisabeth Klein and Carl Richard Lepsius, the founder of German Egyptology.
He was born in Berlin, a son of Elisabeth Klein and Carl Richard Lepsius, the founder of German Egyptology.
He was stylistically affiliated with the Berlin Secession school and to some degree with Impressionism. He died in Berlin.
Reinhold Lepsius was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1916.